Pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics in a variety of ways.
(i) They try to gain public support and sympathy for their cause by carrying out information campaigns, organising meetings, filing petitions, etc.
(ii) By organising strikes and disruptions, they seek to make the government take note of their demands 
(iii) They also influence decision-making by lobbying.
(iv) The issues raised by them often influence the policies of political parties.
(v) Formation of new political parties.

Pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics in a variety of ways.
(i) They try to gain public support and sympathy for their cause by carrying out information campaigns, organising meetings, filing petitions, etc.
(ii) By organising strikes and disruptions, they seek to make the government take note of their demands 
(iii) They also influence decision-making by lobbying.
(iv) The issues raised by them often influence the policies of political parties.
(v) Formation of new political parties.

Pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics in a variety of ways.
(i) They try to gain public support and sympathy for their cause by carrying out information campaigns, organising meetings, filing petitions, etc.
(ii) By organising strikes and disruptions, they seek to make the government take note of their demands 
(iii) They also influence decision-making by lobbying.
(iv) The issues raised by them often influence the policies of political parties.
(v) Formation of new political parties.

Popular struggles integral to the development of democracy.This statement can be analysed giving the following arguments.
(a)Struggles are essential to save democracy.For example, Nepal's struggle for restoration of democracy and Bolivia's water war against privatisation of water.
(b)It is only through struggles that diverse groups can express their feelings.
(c)If people disagree with government policies, they can oppose through struggles.
(d)struggle keep the government under check.

A single-issue movement is an issue-specific movement that seeks to achieve a single objective within a limited time frame. A single-issue movement differs from a long-term movement in the following ways

the examples of Nepal's and Bolivia's struggle reveal that in a democracy several different kinds of organisations work behind big struggle.These organisations play a signification role both and indirectly, as mentioned below.
(a)Direct role:
(i)One obvious way of influencing the decision-making in a democracy is direct participation of organisations in competitive politics.
(ii)This is done by creating parties, contesting elections and forming governments.
(b)Indirect role:
(i)There are many indirect ways in which people can get governments to listen to their demands or their points of view.
(ii)They are could do so by forming a group or organisation and undertaking activities to promote their interest or their viewpoints.

(i)Single-issue movements are issue-specific movements that seek to achieve a single objectives within a limited frame.These movements have a clear leadership and supporting some organisations.But their active life is very short.The Nepalese movement for democracy and Narmada Bachao Andolan are good examples of single-issue movements.
(ii)Long-term movements are general or generic movement that seek to achieve a broad goal in the long terms and involve more than one issue.There is No single organisation that controls or guides such movements.The environmental movement and the women's movement are examples of such movements.All of these have separate organisations, independent leadership and often different views on policy related matters.Yet all of these share a board objective and have a similar approach.

(i)The government of Bolivia sold the right of municipal water supply of the city of Cochabamba to a multinational company.
(ii)The government agreed to negotiate and the strike was called off.
(iii)Instead of resolving the issue, the police resorted to brutal repression and the government imposed martial law.
(iv)But the power of the people forced the officials of MNC to flee the city and made the government conceds to all the demands of the protestors.
(v)the contract with the MNC was canceled and water supply was restored to the municipality at old rates.This came to be known as Bolivia's water war.

In a democracy, sometimes politics is influenced by a small but rich and powerful group,.Public interest group and movement play a very important role in exerting such an influence.They make the government aware that t should think of the needs and concerns of ordinary citizens and not of a few rich groups.Pressure groups also help the government in getting the views of different sections of the population.They do not allow the views of one single group and allow it to dominate the policies.In this way a rough balance of power is achieved and many conflicting views are heard and accommodated.

(i)A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government where as a pressure group is an organization formed when people with common occupation, interest, aspirations or opinions come together in order to achieve a common objective
(ii)Pressure groups do not aim to directly control or share political power as political parties do.
(iii)Political parties have to face the people in elections, but pressure groups are not accountable to the people.
(iv)Pressure groups and movements may not get their funds and support from the people as political parties get.
(v)A pressure group is a temporary set up where as political parties are permanent set up.