Graziers in politics : the pressure group behaviour of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales

Abstract

The aim of the study is to analyse and explain the pressure group behaviour of the Graziers’ Association of New South Wales. The growing importance of pressure groups in Australia has raised many important questions, few of which have yet been answered, or at least adequately. To date there has been little intensive research on pressure groups in Australia. However, the student of pressure groups in this country has available to him many overseas studies and a large body of theoretical literature. The approach used here has been adapted from that developed by Eckstein. It relates behaviour to the environment with which the group interacts.