Working towards Institutional Change

Abstract

By ‘campaigning from outside the system’, I am referring to pressure-group activity by one organisation or a group of normally non-statutory organisations, to effect a change in another organisation, normally a statutory organisation. Typically, a community group may be pressing for its own community centre or to stop the construction of a motorway. The objective of a campaign is either to persuade or to coerce the other organisation to do something it would not otherwise have done. A campaigning organisation must primarily develop the power to achieve this.