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}}'''Lobbying''' is the activity of individual [[lobbyist]]s and [[lobbying firms]].
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}}'''Lobbying''' is the activity of individual [[lobbyist]]s and [[lobbying firms]]. In 2023, [[Big Pharma]] spent more on lobbying than any other business sector.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/which-us-industries-spend-most-lobbying</ref>
  
 
A 2015 ''[[Guardian]]'' article on the topic concluded by quoting [[Mansur Gidfar]]: "How can we expect politicians who routinely receive campaign money, lucrative job offers, and lavish gifts from special interests to make impartial decisions that directly affect those same special interests? As long as this kind of transparently corrupt behavior remains legal, we won’t have a government that truly represents the people."<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/27/corporations-paid-us-senators-fast-track-tpp</ref>
 
A 2015 ''[[Guardian]]'' article on the topic concluded by quoting [[Mansur Gidfar]]: "How can we expect politicians who routinely receive campaign money, lucrative job offers, and lavish gifts from special interests to make impartial decisions that directly affect those same special interests? As long as this kind of transparently corrupt behavior remains legal, we won’t have a government that truly represents the people."<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/27/corporations-paid-us-senators-fast-track-tpp</ref>
 
==Legal status==
 
==Legal status==
[[image:Lobbying-Good-Bad-01.jpg|right|thumbnail]]
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==Registration==
 
==Registration==
 
In US, lobbying is supposed to be registered. Some estimate the registered lobbying to be only the top of the iceberg:
 
In US, lobbying is supposed to be registered. Some estimate the registered lobbying to be only the top of the iceberg:

Latest revision as of 17:51, 30 August 2024

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Lobbying is to bribery as tax avoidance is to tax evasion.

Lobbying is the activity of individual lobbyists and lobbying firms. In 2023, Big Pharma spent more on lobbying than any other business sector.[1]

A 2015 Guardian article on the topic concluded by quoting Mansur Gidfar: "How can we expect politicians who routinely receive campaign money, lucrative job offers, and lavish gifts from special interests to make impartial decisions that directly affect those same special interests? As long as this kind of transparently corrupt behavior remains legal, we won’t have a government that truly represents the people."[2]

Legal status

Lobbying-Good-Bad-01.jpg

Registration

In US, lobbying is supposed to be registered. Some estimate the registered lobbying to be only the top of the iceberg:

Graphic from March 2015

 

Examples

Page nameDescription
BAE Systems/Lobbying
PhilanthropyNow used regularly by PR agencies to white/green wash unsavoury activity and improve the profile of wealthy donors

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
"Anti-corruption"“In Slovakia in the 1990s I used UK companies wanting to do business to engage with local businesses. We set up the Klub 500 of companies with more than 500 employees. We got UK MPs via the NATO Parliamentary Assembly to teach them how business relates to, and can fund and lobby, political parties legitimately in a democracy, instead of their then model of cash in brown envelopes.”Chris Donnelly24 May 2018
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