Regulating Lobbying: A Global Comparison

✍ Scribed by Raj Chari, John Hogan, Gary Murphy, Michele Crepaz

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Series: European Politics
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Governments worldwide are developing sunshine policies that increase transparency in politics, where a key initiative is regulating lobbyists. Building on the pioneering first edition, this book updates its examination of all jurisdictions with regulations, from the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Unlike any book, it offers unique insights into how the regulations compare and contrast against each other, offering a revamped theoretical classification of different regulatory environments and situating each political system therein. This edition innovatively considers different measurements to capture the robustness of lobbying laws in terms of promoting transparency and accountability. And, based on the authors’ experience of advising governments globally, it closes with a no-nonsense guide on how to make a lobbying law. This is of value to policymakers seeking to introduce or amend regulations, and lobbyists seeking to influence this process.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements and dedication
List of abbreviations
Introducing Regulating lobbying
Countries with laws in the 1900s
Countries with laws in the first decade of the 2000s
Countries with laws in the 2010s
Comparative analysis of robustness measures
How to make a lobbying law: lessons for states and lobbyists
Conclusion
References and further reading
Index