Lobbying

In politics, lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying, which usually involves direct, face-to-face contact, is done by many types of people, associations and organized groups, including individuals in the private sector, corporations, fellow legislators or government officials, or advocacy groups (interest groups). Lobbyists may be among a legislator's constituencies, meaning a voter or bloc of voters within their electoral district; they may engage in lobbying as a business. Professional lobbyists are people whose business is trying …

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MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 25 April 2024 English

During the last ten years, several issues such as the Arab Spring, the emergence and spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the COVID-19 pandemic, oil price …

objectives. Additionally, the Indian efforts at lobbying the UAE have resulted in the latter maintaining


Environmental Defenders Office · 25 April 2024 English

We recognise that First Nations’ Countries were never ceded and express our remorse for the injustices and inequities that have been and continue to be endured by the First Nations …

Limited ambition for renewable electricity 18 Lobbying and advocacy 19 Physical risk to the business ending use to avoid Do they avoid deforestation lobbying Company make a Net all emissions relying on include requirements of local community.”94 18 Roadmap to Reality Lobbying and advocacy Of the companies audited, none have to lobbying against climate action. This may not be Case study – Aurizon through direct lobbying, rather with negative Aurizon fails to disclose their lobbying engagement on climate policy. This is activities


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

Keywords of the Datafied State is a collection of essays on concepts that are central to understanding the relationship between government and technology, and how it differs across geographies. Underlying …

regulatory capture, includes strategies such as lobbying, public relations campaigns, direct contributions


Environmental Defenders Office · 24 April 2024

possible and offsetting residual emissions using credible offsets or renewable energy certificates.33 The lack of clarity around what the Scope 3 emissions are, the variety of methods used Alinta’s reported …

boundaries for GHG reporting 20 Reliance on hydrogen 21 Lobbying and advocacy 22 Uncertainty 23 Physical risk to Energising Net Zero in the Energy Industry 21 Lobbying and advocacy Lack of support for regulation designed legislation. In 2023 demonstrated through companies lobbying AGL declared support for declining baselines government international offsets.81 This means they with the lobbying and advocacy that the supported greater access Entities, 16. There is no information on Stanwell’s lobbying Integrity Matters: Net Zero Commitments by activities


Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

Especially since the 2010s, under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have effectively turned the datafied state into a reliant client.14 In these so-called partnerships, companies feign a commit- …

regulatory capture, includes strategies such as lobbying, public relations campaigns, direct contributions like their counterparts in other sectors, use lobbying, pub- 3 Thanks to Patrick Davison for coining 58 influence over the state through increased lobbying, seizure of public re- sources, and emphasis on


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 24 April 2024 English

The 'revolving doors' phenomenon has frequently caught media and public attention in recent years. This publication offers an overview of how the post term activities of members of the EU …

practice referred to as lobbying, which presents pros and cons. On the one hand, lobbying is beneficial to industry risk to the democratic tissue of society, as lobbying can undermine decision-makers' integrity and lead senior advisory position. The phenomenon of lobbying is on the rise in Europe, in particular in Brussels Observatory (CEO) reports an increase in spending on lobbying since 2015, while Transparency International International reports a drastic increase in investment in lobbying by big tech companies between 2014 and 2021, of


Amnesty International · 23 April 2024 English

Amnesty International’s The State of the World’s Human Rights report delivers an assessment of human rights in 155 countries. 2023 saw escalating conflicts and the near breakdown of international law.Powerful …

and do not succumb to the pressure of corporate lobbying and their own desire for power. Support researchers


World Bank Group · 23 April 2024 French

routier, secteur portuaire Avantages financiers • Lobbying Elevé Faible Autres parties prenantes ONG


RAND Corporation · 22 April 2024 English

Drawing on findings from focus groups with diverse Village Movement members and leaders, the authors explore participants' views about healthy aging, their views on how Villages support healthy aging, and …

array of organizations, and they too form better lobbying groups than one little Village. (Village member)


ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 22 April 2024 English

Introduction Economic development is closely associated with good health, well-being, and education. Various concepts and indices, such as multidimensional poverty and the human development index, have been formulated to encompass …

Tesler and Ruth E. Malone, “Corporate Philanthropy, Lobbying, and Public Health Policy,” American Journal


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