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.
Autorentext
Raj Chari is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin John Hogan is Lecturer in International Political Economy and Irish Politics at the College of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology Gary Murphy is Professor of Politics in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University Michele Crepaz is Assistant Lecturer at the College of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology
Klappentext
Across the globe, governments are developing policies that increase transparency and accountability in politics. A key initiative of this is the regulation of lobbying. Building on the landmark first edition, Regulating lobbying updates its examination of all jurisdictions with lobbying regulations, from the Americas to Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia. It provides unique insights into how the regulations compare and contrast with one another, and offers an up-to-date theoretical classification of different regulatory environments. The book comprehensively examines jurisdictions worldwide and investigates whether some measurements of the robustness of lobbying laws are more valid and reliable than others. This second edition covers more countries than its predecessor, and draws on the authors' experience of advising governments in order to provide a no-nonsense guide on how to make or amend a lobbying law. This book will appeal to an academic readership, to those teaching courses on lobbying and regulatory politics and to those researching in the field. It will also be of great interest to practitioners, including legislators, civil servants and lobbyists themselves.
Inhalt
1 Introducing Regulating lobbying 2 Countries with laws in the 1990s 3 Countries with laws in the first decade of the 2000s 4 Countries with laws in the 2010s 5 Comparative analysis of robustness measures 6 How to make a lobbying law: lessons for states and lobbyists 7 ConclusionIndex