The policy process in Australian and indeed most modern governed societies are determined by the dominance of interests/pressure groups. The term interest/pressure group is used to describe groups that try to influence Government policy and/or legislation, to meet their own needs. As Dahl suggests ' by "power" we mean to describe a ... realistic relationship, such as A's capacity for acting in such a manner as to control B's responses' (Dahl, 1956, p.13). Therefore, …showed first 75 words of 1379 total…

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