So the voters are as enthusiastic about parties as they are about pressure groups.
But it is from pressure groups and campaigning organisations that the most outspoken opposition is coming.
Diana Smith, from the town's Labour Party, said pressure groups would benefit from combining resources.
Pressure groups have expressed disappointment over the G8's failure to honour those previous commitments.
Like many other green pressure groups it became increasingly seduced by the establishment it once challenged.
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The case in favour of pressure groups begins with some of the flaws of representative democracy.
Most survive, almost unseen and unheard, in lay pressure groups, religious orders, theological faculties and missions.
Another apparent threat to the parties is the growth of interest and pressure groups .
It includes details on how to access sites from Welsh pressure groups to Welsh pop groups.
The service sometimes ends up initiating proceedings against people who have already left, according to pressure groups.
One reason is that Catholic fury has found an outlet in a growing number of lay pressure groups.
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True, Mr Bush and Mr Gore spend too much time chasing money and sucking up to pressure groups.
And, following a challenge from Transport 2000 and other environmental pressure groups, the decision is to be judicially reviewed.
Some 180 nations and thousands of environmental and industry pressure groups are expected to take part in the conference.
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Several green pressure groups, and even some energy and power company bosses, think that the whole idea is unworkable.
And there are at least five relatively large pressure groups with full-time staff.
Most pressure groups opposing Mr Powell echo Mr Copps, albeit in incompatible ways.
Moreover, the opposition parties were dominated by media, business and trade-union leaders and by pressure groups, rather than by politicians.
In addition, limits on party spending would be effective only if spending by supporters and pressure groups were also controlled.
Other attention-getting IPCC assertions turn out to have been based on the work of environmental pressure groups and popular magazines.
If pressure groups grow too strong, they can deter governments from pursuing policies which are in the wider public interest.
By encouraging governments to do too much, say critics on the right, pressure groups prevent governments from doing anything well.
The Tories have called this measure vindictive, but their natural allies in the countryside pressure groups are happy with it.
Several campaign and pressure groups have accused Tesco, and other leading supermarkets, of damaging the interests of suppliers and local communities.
Pressure groups also check excessive central power and give governments expert advice.
Elsewhere, in San Francisco, around 40, 000 people, according to police estimates, including several Palestinian pressure groups, converged on City Hall to hear speeches.
Many political scientists argue that the traditional view that pressure groups create a healthy democratic pluralism is nearer the mark than Olson's thesis.
And pressure groups say the best thing ministers could do is start to move mentally ill inmates out of jails and into treatment.
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