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This paper aims to empirically verify to what extent the controversies on lobbying regulation are manifested by the …-depth interviews. The results point to convergence on the need to regulate lobbying activity and about the positive effects expected to …. It is recommended that this debate must not ignore that lobbying is an important mechanism of political participation and …
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to influence the legislative process: corporate campaign financing and lobbying activities. For the empirical analysis … funding is high, but the bias cannot be generalized. As for lobbying, we noticed the centrality of business interest groups in …
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This paper aims to empirically verify to what extent the controversies on lobbying regulation are manifested by the …-depth interviews. The results point to convergence on the need to regulate lobbying activity and about the positive effects expected to …. It is recommended that this debate must not ignore that lobbying is an important mechanism of political participation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347489
to influence the legislative process: corporate campaign financing and lobbying activities. For the empirical analysis … funding is high, but the bias cannot be generalized. As for lobbying, we noticed the centrality of business interest groups in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422335
In this paper, we discuss new data on party affiliations within ministries to characterize party-political appointments in high- and mid-level bureaucracy, from 1999 to 2018. We argue that party cleavages within these organizational structures are significant and, to analyze the variation...
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For any political party wishing to keep the governance of the country, it is crucial to understand the power that each of the other parties can bring to its coalition. This evaluation helps to understand the bargaining power of each party individually. Furthermore, it allows a party to evaluate...
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Lobbying regulation initiatives have been developed, especially in liberal democracies, based on two main questions … have when there is interaction. In order to face the issue, many countries that regulated lobbying activities based their … Brazilian legislators have absorbed these questions in the many attempts to regulate lobbying activities in the country since …
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This paper explores how malapportionment affects the way Brazilian federal government allocates its resources to subnational units. Specifically, we argue that over-represented subnational units receive more per capita in discretionary federal spending because the executive seeks its legislative...
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