| Description |
1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Recent Growth of Regulation and the Lobbying Industry -- 1.2 How is Lobbying Connected to Democracy? -- 1.3 The Present-Day Relevance of Transparent Lobbying -- 1.4 The Current State of the Art -- 1.5 Research Questions and Objectives -- 1.6 Methodological Framework -- 1.7 The Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Democracy and Lobbying -- 2.1 Democracy and Accountability |
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2.2 Democracy as a Decision-Making Process -- 2.3 Lobbying in Democracy -- References -- Chapter 3: Transparency in Democratic Decision-Making -- 3.1 Transparency and Good Governance -- 3.2 Transparency and Its Rules -- 3.3 Transparency of Lobbying and Democracy -- 3.4 Transparency of Lobbying and Institutional Quality -- References -- Chapter 4: Methodology of Research on Lobbying Regulation -- 4.1 Overview of Existing Approaches -- 4.2 Key Standards and Measures of Transparent Lobbying -- 4.3 Catalogue of Transparent Lobbying -- 4.3.1 Lobbyists -- 4.3.2 Targets of Lobbying |
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4.3.3 Sunshine Principles and Sunshine Rules -- 4.3.4 Oversight and Sanctioning System -- 4.4 Benefits and Costs of Transparent Lobbying (Pavla Bednářová) -- References -- Chapter 5: A Theoretical Model of Lobbying -- 5.1 Rational-Choice Principles and Transparent Lobbying -- 5.2 Interest Groups in Decision-Making: Pluralism, Neo-corporatism, and the State -- 5.2.1 Pluralism -- 5.2.2 Neo-corporatism -- 5.2.3 Regulation Theory: The Rent-Seeking and Regulatory Capture -- 5.3 An Actor-Centered Model of Lobbying (with Milan Žák) -- 5.4 Information in Lobbying |
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5.5 Non-transparent Lobbying as a Democratic Failure -- 5.6 Optima in Lobbying Games -- References -- Chapter 6: Past and Present Practices of Lobbying and Its Regulation -- 6.1 Growth of Informal Lobbying and Pioneering Lobbying Rules -- 6.2 Growth of Lobbying Regulations in the World -- 6.2.1 Regulation of Lobbying in the United States -- 6.2.2 Regulation of Lobbying in Canada -- 6.2.3 Lobbying Regulation in the United Kingdom -- 6.2.4 Lobbying Regulation at the Level of European Institutions -- 6.2.5 Regulation in Other Countries of the World |
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6.3 Pro-transparency Rules Affecting Lobbying in Practice -- 6.3.1 Lobbyists -- 6.3.2 Targets of Lobbying -- 6.3.3 Sunshine Principles -- 6.3.4 Monitoring and Sanctioning -- 6.4 Models of Lobbying Regulation in Practice -- References -- Chapter 7: Transparent Lobbying in Central and Eastern European Countries -- 7.1 Lobbying Regulation as a Challenge of Democratization -- 7.2 Development and Recent Regulation of Lobbying in Central and Eastern European Countries -- 7.3 Evaluation of Transparent Lobbying in Visegrad Group Countries and Austria and Slovenia |
| Summary |
This book deals with the current, as yet unsolved, problem of transparency of lobbying. In the current theories and prevalent models that deal with lobbying activities, there is no reflection of the degree of transparency of lobbying, mainly due to the unclear distinction between corruption, lobbying in general, and transparent lobbying. This book provides a perspective on transparency in lobbying in a comprehensive and structured manner. It delivers an interdisciplinary approach to the topic and creates a methodology for assessing the transparency of lobbying, its role in the democratization process and a methodology for evaluating the main consequences of transparency. The new approach is applied to assess lobbying regulations in the countries of Central Eastern Europe and shows a method for how lobbying in other regions of the world may also be assessed. Šárka Laboutková is Associate Professor at the Economics Department of the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Liberec (TUL), Czech Republic. Vít Šimral currently serves as a Councillor of the City of Prague responsible for education, sports, science, and business development. Petr Vymětal is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic |
| Notes |
7.3.1 Evaluation of Indicators in the Category "Lobbyists." |
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Print version record |
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Lobbying.
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Democracy.
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Lobbying
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Democracy
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Lobbying
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Šimral, Vít.
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Vymětal, Petr
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| ISBN |
9783030360443 |
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303036044X |
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