Lobbying and Transparency

Advocacy directed at government.

Image from the campaign Clear the smoke in Brussels (ALTER EU)

The party has poured several million dollars into lobbying in the US to present the opposition as pro Russian.

Their lobbying, which is carried out at the expense of their companies, is subsidized by their shareholders.

It is a difficult subject to address, and doing so is impeded by lobbying efforts and incomplete information.

They staged street demonstrations, mobilized media pressure, and lobbied the SCAF.

Lobbying means any individual or group that seeks to influence citizen representatives in order to get them to legislate laws in their interest.

The biggest players, including Wall Street, the automobile companies, the health care industry, the armaments industry, and the real estate sector, have done great damage to the US and world economy over the past decade.

Industri bahan bakar fosil mengeluarkan uang dalam jumlah besar untuk kampanye anggota Kongres seperti Senator Mitch McConnell dan Senator James Inhofe.

Backroom lobbying by powerful corporations now dominates policymaking negotiations, from which the public is excluded.

It is not particular judges that are bought, but the laws themselves, through campaign contributions and lobbying, in what has come to be called corruption, American style.

In America, by contrast, the Chamber of Commerce and other business interests lobby hard to keep politicians from ever proposing such solutions.

(So, too, did the tobacco companies spend vast sums on political lobbying and bogus science to deny the links between smoking and lung cancer.)

This was disclosed on the website of the Foreign Agents Registration Act which lists American companies engaged in lobbying for foreign powers.

Kelompok pelobi bahan bakar fosil, pemerintah negara negara industri yang enggan, dan disengaged electorates telah menunda dan menghambat penetapan perjanjian yang kuat untuk mengurangi emisi gas rumah kaca secara global.

In addition, depending on their relationship with their own investors, some institutional investors (for example, mutual fund managers) may capture only a limited fraction of the increase in value of their portfolios as a result of governance reforms.

In contrast to corporate insiders, institutional investors cannot charge the costs of lobbying to the publicly traded companies whose investor protection is at stake.

It is the nature of governance that determines whether people deploy their talents and energy in pursuit of innovation, production, and job creation, or in rent seeking and lobbying for political protection.

As little as I like Sarah Palin, the fact is that entrenched lobbying and other special interests mean that a changing of the guard in Washington is too often only a change in branding.

The new government's aggressive lobbying before the summit was perceived both at home and abroad as a clear sign of its commitment to the EU cause.

Extensive lobbying, directly and by proxy, is underway to persuade European regulators to allow long term supply contracts in the EU despite their deadening effect on competition.

For this reason, various organisations from all over Europe, amongst which are ALTER EU, Friends of the Earth Europe and Unlock Democracy, fight for the transparency in lobbying, and are trying to implement an obligatory lobbying register accesible to the public for controlling pressure groups in different countries.

Through close sources, I came to know that one of the companies that support their mass campaigns and lobbying activities in the Congress is Azúcar de Guatemala, a powerful cartel of 14 companies (Guatemala is the biggest sugar exporter in the world).