# 25. Political / organisational tricks ## 25.5. Methodology/Refinements/Sub-species ## 25.5.18. Front groups This is the strategy where a political party or movement controls proxy groups who are not formally affiliated with the party or movement. These may include "non-partisan" groups like think tanks, which may include radical left or right-wing groups, such as feminist, environmentalist, pro-choice or pro-minority groups. There could be conservative equivalents like the National Rifle Association or in Britain the Countryside alliance etc. Think tanks are such an important and specific influential phenomenon that they are considered as a separate topic.