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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Lobbyists"”.
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State-funded Lobbyists in Georgia: Wise or Wasteful?
… should be used to pay the salaries of these “lobbyists.” This practice has come under fire as being a questionable or wasteful use of taxpayers’ monies. This study examines the primary duties of agency lobbyists and asks legislators, via a questionnaire, if they support the use of state funds …
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The tailored information sharing decision model: A qualitative study exploring how expert lobbyists influence state legislators
… effectively, may be able to learn from lobbyists who routinely share information to influence state legislator decisions. This study investigates expert lobbyist decisions to build a theory of lobbyist information sharing. Based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 18 expert …
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Commercial lobbying: a thesis on the "for hire" aspects of lobbying
Lobbyists for hire - commercial lobbyists - are a small, distinct,, accepted but minor addition to the dramatis personae of UK public policy-making. Their differentiating feature,, marking them off from other types of lobbyist., is that they are for hire and it is the feature which is the least …
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Challenges for Good Government Reformers in California: Shadow Lobbying & Astroturfing
… for good government advocates and policymakers. Lobbyists have a large influence on political and policy matters in the state legislature and executive branch. Reform proponents naturally see the oversized influence of lobbyists as a problem. However, how big of a problem is lobbying? Further, …
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The lobbying activities of provincial mercantile and manufacturing interests against the renewal of the East India Company’s charter, 1812-1813 and 1829-1833
… supporters. In this thesis, the provincial lobbyists’ economic interests and political backgrounds have closely been examined. Although the provincial lobbyists’ economic and political interests were varied and they split up over some economic and political issues, these did not affect their …
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Bureaucratic access points
… of access points has traditionally involved lobbyists and interest groups accessing elected officials and their staffs. I ask what is the effect of lobbyists and interest groups accessing bureaucrats directly in the policy implementation process and its subsequent evaluation. More …
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Three essays on informed trading
… with Jiekun Huang, shows that connections to lobbyists enable hedge funds to trade more profitably in stocks that are more sensitive to political news. This essay examines the hypothesis that hedge fund managers gain an informational advantage in securities trading through their connections …
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The Politics of Confinement: Prison Population and Capacity Change in Post-War California
… officials, legislative staff members, lobbyists and other individuals concerned with this policy area in order to develop a more concrete picture of the processes which have shaped the variables of interest.
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Η ΕΜΠΟΡΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΥΡΩΠΑΙΚΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΤΟΜΕΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΛΩΣΤΟΥΦΑΝΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΣ
… OF THE COMMISSION .THE COUNCIL, THE E.P., THE LOBBYISTS. - A GLOBAL POLITICO-ECONOMICAL SYNTHESIS/THEORISATION OF THE ISSUES.
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Ballot Readability and Plain Language
… </ol> <p>Given that partisan lawyers and lobbyists write many state ballot questions, there may be tendencies to compose legislatively-referred constitutional amendments in confusing and unclear language designed to increase the likelihood of passage. Simplification of the language, …
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Regulating lobbying’s influence on trade policy in South Africa to achieve openness, transparency and integrity.
… own interests. This phenomenon is epitomised by lobbyists, whose roots can be traced back, according to American political scientist Lipsen, to the Garden of Eden, where the serpent lobbied Eve to persuade Adam to defy his covenant with God, lending credence to Lipsen’s assertion that lobbying is …
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Countervailing Forces: The Impact of Persuasion on Political Policyaking
… due to increasing influence from well-funded lobbyists of special interest groups. To argue this point, a case study of health care reform is provided to exemplify that legislation for the “common good” or majority of citizens has been seriously delayed and diluted. Corporate-owned, mainstream …
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Understanding Climate Change Adaptation and Gentrification through the Framework of Uneven Coastal Development in Keansburg, New Jersey
… nurturing coastal development. New Jersey beach lobbyists shepherded the development of coastal engineering as a modern scientific field as one euphemistically directed at ‘shore protection’ of coastal property values, rather than coastal ecosystems themselves. Subsequently, these lobbyists …
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The Carbon Frame: Lobbying for Renewable Energy in the European Union
… within global warming debates severely impedes lobbyists in favor of building stronger renewable energy policies in the European Union (EU). Within the EU, carbon is widely used to speak about many of the perils of climate change, global warming, energy policy, and contingent subject matters. In …
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SKEWER: Sentiment Knowledge Extraction with Entity Recognition
… regarding the positions of legislators, lobbyists, and the general public towards specific bills or topics, and how those positions are expressed in committee hearings. Several case studies are presented to illustrate the new knowledge that can be acquired from the knowledge graph.</p>
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An Investigation Into the Decision-Making Processes of Legislators Engaged in Public Policy Regarding Education
… sponsorship of the bill. Party affiliation and lobbyists were not seen as major influences.</p> <p>Colleges of education, professional organizations for educators, school districts, and school personnel should be interested in the results so as to inform educational leaders and teachers of the …
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Evaluating the potential for plant-based meat to capture the U.S. meat market
… the U.S. livestock market and U.S. agriculture lobbyists will respond to the new competition. Next, the analysis provides an empirical analysis of one of these factors – the U.S. livestock market’s response to competition from plant-based meat, using an examination of how competition between …
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Nuclear “Pork” Revisited: Organizational Imperatives and Nuclear Weapon Program Abandonment
… face weak incentives to act as nuclear bomb lobbyists. Thus, bureaucratic or organizational imperatives do not only work in favour of nuclear proliferation. They can also work in favour of nuclear abandonment by contributing to a policy environment that makes nuclear abandonment more likely. …
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The categorical funding of consumer and homemaking education
… obtained through the efforts of home economists, lobbyists, and congressional aides who analyzed proposed provisions and who, through compromise, prepared legislation that was acceptable to all parties. It is recommended that home economists continue to work with Congress and that they improve the …
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