Advocacy Groups

by Lisa Young and Lisa Yourng

Book Overview

Advocacy Groups uses the Audit standards of responsiveness, inclusiveness, and participation to examine advocacy groups in Canada and assess the ways that they contribute to, or detract from, Canadian democracy. It argues that group activity represents an important form of political participation. Though some interests face greater organizational challenges than others, advocacy groups can play critical compensatory roles for interests that are often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774811110
• ISBN13: 9780774811118
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.