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  2. Classification of advocacy groups - Wikipedia

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    The issues surrounding the classification of advocacy groups according to their core aims has led writers such as Wyn Grant to divide groups according to the insider–outsider typology, i.e. how close a particular advocacy group is to the government of the day, and to what extent it can develop secure and positive relationships with ...

  3. Advocacy group - Wikipedia

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    Advocacy groups exist in a wide variety of genres based upon their most pronounced activities. Anti-defamation organizations issue responses or criticisms to real or supposed slights of any sort (including speech or violence) by an individual or group against a specific segment of the population which the organization exists to represent.

  4. Category : Economic advocacy groups in the United States

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    Political and economic think tanks in the United States (34 C, 223 P) Pages in category "Economic advocacy groups in the United States" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.

  5. Issue advocacy ads - Wikipedia

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    Issue advocacy ads (also known as interest advocacy ads or issue only ads) are communications intended to bring awareness to a certain problem. Groups that sponsor this form of communication are known by several names including: interest advocacy group, issue advocacy group, issue only group, or special interest group .

  6. Americans for Prosperity - Wikipedia

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    According to FactCheck.org, by 2011, AFP had "emerged as one of the most influential conservative issue advocacy groups on the national and state political scene". [9] [33] The Los Angeles Times said AFP performed roles typical of national and state political parties. [34]

  7. Single-issue politics - Wikipedia

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    The most electorally successful British single-issue party is the pro-Brexit UKIP which later due to its success started to formulate other policies.As its consequences started to become clear, its former leader Nigel Farage left and founded the Brexit Party, renamed Reform UK as the withdrawal process gained momentum.

  8. Advocacy - Wikipedia

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    Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials and the public.

  9. Methods used by advocacy groups - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, the campaigns of advocacy groups have included letter-writing, petitions and marches.For example, in the mid-1980s, LIFE compiled a petition of more than 2,000,000 names opposed to abortion, organised a "Mail MPs a Mountain" campaign in 1987 and employed postcard campaigns in 1989 and 1990 against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.