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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"lobbying"”.
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Commercial lobbying: a thesis on the "for hire" aspects of lobbying
… There is little explicit theory of commercial lobbying: it is best accounted for as an implication of neo-pluralism. Through primary fieldwork amongst them and the two groups with whom they interact - clients and decisionmakers - the nature of their hiring is analysed. They are mostly hired by …
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LOBBYING FOR ACCOUNTING LEGISLATION
I provide the first large-scale evidence on the lobbying forces seeking to deregulate accounting and their consequences using the U.S. congressional archive and lobbying disclosure data. I focus on congressional bills aimed at changing accounting rules (“accounting bills”), which attracted over a …
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Political Economy of Immigration and Lobbying
… The third chapter analyzes a dynamic lobbying model in which two antagonistic lobbies compete with each other for a prize over two time periods that are linked through status quo bias. The attacker has to decide whether to attempt an attack on the status quo already in the first period …
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Grassroots Organizations Using Social Media as a Lobbying Technique
… and form around topics through grassroots lobbying and direct lobbying. As the 21st Century is referred to as the Digital Age, many grassroots organizations have found it necessary to expand on their lobbying techniques. Rather than utilizing methods like traditional media, email, phone …
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Lobbying at the state level: Higher education interests in Illinois.
Lobbying at the state level: Higher education interests in Illinois.
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Challenges for Good Government Reformers in California: Shadow Lobbying & Astroturfing
<p>Lobbying reform in California’s capital presents a complex policy problem 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 …
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Information & Interest Group Lobbying in Congress: Policy vs. Political Information
… group influence, the nature of informational lobbying in Congress and how Congress responds to new issues on the policy agenda.
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Lobbying as a hedge on political risk : when size matters
… associated with this policy change through lobbying, which leads them to earn lower expected returns. I provide two strands of empirical evidence consistent with the model predictions. The first one looks at the behavior of a blue versus red industries around the unexpected results of the …
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The Carbon Frame: Lobbying for Renewable Energy in the European Union
<p>This paper demonstrates how using the word "carbon" 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 …
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Implementing Climate Policy and Renewable Energy Technology – The Role of Lobbying
… the role that fossil fuel companies play in lobbying on climate legislation, and uses theoretical models of lobbying to categorize the behavior of the companies. Overall, lobbying was found to be skewed heavily towards the poles of climate opinion, namely those heavily in favor and heavily …
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Higher education association lobbying: grassroots outreach as a signal of constituent opinion
… study sought to gain a better understanding of lobbying by the major DC-based higher education associations. To understand this phenomenon, this study looked at the lobbying tactics used by the associations and how they decide on what lobbying tactics to use. A qualitative, multiple case study …
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Japanese firms in the EU: Europeanization of lobbying strategies and enduring national characteristics
… political actors and harmonized their lobbying pattern, creating a distinctive business-government relationship in the EU. Yet, it still remains to be examined whether Japanese firms are able to utilize their political options and conform to the new EU lobbying style, which features …
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The duality of corporate political activity: impact of institutions on lobbying and campaign contributions
… dissertation, I examine the corporate use of lobbying and campaign contributions of the S&P 500 companies from 1998 to 2012, which are highly visible due to their disclosure requirement in the United States and thus provide an appealing context to examine the social meaning attached to …
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Evaluating Lobbying in the United Kingdom: Moving From a Corruption Framework to ‘Institutional Diversion’
The lobbying of Parliament and the Government in the United Kingdom by wealthy or influential groups and individuals raises concerns about corruption and political equality. Professional lobbying is available mainly to those with significant resources and is often the most effective means of …
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The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Lobbying Effectiveness: Evidence from Effective Tax Rates
… lead to increased effectiveness of corporate lobbying expenditures, as measured by effective tax rates. This interactive effect creates a tangible economic benefit for firms, and ultimately their owners, providing an opportunity for firms to address the interests of both non-owners and owners. …
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The Nam's Opposition to The Gardner Eight-Hour Bill, 1902-1912: A Study in Lobbying
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T18:00:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6406049.pdf: 25506762 bytes, checksum: 54fd775c09974360c6fe2b0441c91a3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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Explaining the country patterns of foreign lobbying in the United States : issues, capabilities, and norms
… study proposes and tests three models of foreign lobbying in the United States. The "Reaction Model" assumes that the foreign lobbying results largely from countries' desire to act when issues related to them catch US public attention. The "Resource Model" assumes that the countries that can …
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Europeanization of Corporate Lobbying in the Enlarged EU: The Missing Link in the Case of Hungary
… the Europeanization process of corporate lobbying from a comparative capitalism perspective, through the case study of Hungary and the shadow case of the UK. I argue that the theorisation of EU lobbying requires a firm-centred approach and the integration of managerial choice into the …
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The impact of environmental accountability on firm corporate lobbying behaviour: an empirical investigation of US listed firms
… sampled US firms and looked at their corporate lobbying spending. After running both the fixed effect and random effect models along with the Hausman test to determine which model was best applicable to the hypothesis, the random effect model illustrated optimal results concluding that firms …
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