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Communicare, 2022 This article focuses on lobbying in South Africa, with special reference to the business sector. Lobbying does indeed take place in South Africa, but is on an ad hoc and unstructured basis when compared with the USA, for example. Most of the persons who
Yolanda Kleynhans
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Lobbying of commercial diplomats: institutional setting as a determining factor [PDF]
, 2012 The aim of this research is to contribute to the understanding of how commercial diplomats lobby for public procurement contracts. The institutional environment has ramifications for the manner of lobbying and for the practice of commercial diplomacy ...
Bondarouk, T.V., Ruel, H.J.M.
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Lobbying in the European Union and the Czech Republic
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013 Transparent lobbying is a natural and desirable part of the functioning of each democratic state. The paper analyzes the specific ways, perception and regulation of lobbying in the European Union and the Czech Republic.
Daniela Dvořáková
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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2023 Background To support public health researchers and advocates seeking to challenge the influence of powerful commercial actors on health, it is necessary to develop a deeper understanding of corporate political activities. This project explores political
Jennifer Lacy-Nichols +2 more
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Judicial lobbying: The politics of labor law constitutional interpretation [PDF]
, 2006 This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the ...
Iaryczower, Matias +2 more
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Advancing the Empirical Research on Lobbying [PDF]
, 2013 This essay identifies the empirical facts about lobbying which are generally agreed upon in the literature. It then discusses challenges to empirical research in lobbying and provides examples of empirical methods that can be employed to overcome these ...
de Figueiredo, John M. +1 more
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Regime Change and Arab Countries' Lobbying in the United States
Arab Studies Quarterly, 2013 In this article lobbying by several Arab countries in the United States is analyzed to answer two questions: What are the ramifications of a regime change for lobbying strategy in the United States? Does lobbying matter in securing US government support?
Sergey Kostyaev
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester +16 more
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THE LAW ON LOBBYING IN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND. THEORY AND PRACTICE (2006 - 2010) [PDF]
CES Working Papers, 2014 Effective functioning of the lobbying phenomenon facilitates economic development for every country. However this form of political participation can weaken economic growth if it is not properly controlled.
Maciej Olejnik
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Transparency in Lobbying as Perceived by Organisational Representatives in the Czech Republic
Review of Economic Perspectives, 2017 This paper focuses on transparency in lobbying as perceived by in sample organisations in the Czech Republic. The paper’s aim is to study how lobbying and its impact on decision-making practices are perceived by organisational representatives and to ...
Vnoučková Lucie, Žák Milan
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