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Democratizing Lobbying: Transparency, Professionalization, and Agenda-Setting

Interest Groups
Decision Making
Lobbying
PRA161
Daphné Charotte
Maastricht Universiteit
Adrià Albareda
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Building: A - Faculty of Law, Floor: 2, Room: 213

Monday 13:30 - 15:15 CEST (04/09/2023)

Abstract

This panel takes a broad perspective of lobbying by exploring various means through which interest groups contribute to democratic processes. Papers in this panel assess the proliferation of lobbying regulations and transparency registers in democratic systems, and how lobbyists use this information strategically; the professionalization of lobbying in a comparative EU-US perspective; how legislators choose sources and entities to support their arguments; and the problematic agenda-setting dynamic of politicians prioritizing their own issues first in winner-takes-all majoritarian systems.

Title Details
Leveraging the Authority of Policy Advisory Systems: Cross-National Evidence from Legislative Speech View Paper Details
Exploring the significance of lobbying transparency measures using the Delphi method View Paper Details
Winner-takes-all politics? Issue politics around elections; contrasting consensus and majoritarian policy styles View Paper Details
How, When, and Why? A comparative analysis of lobbyists’ consumption of lobbying register data to inform advocacy strategies in pluralist, corporatist, and statist states View Paper Details