{"id":9973,"date":"2020-11-17T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T11:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10245\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:13:39","slug":"what-is-lobbying-393-en","status":"publish","type":"antikorupcija","link":"https:\/\/transparency.vdevs.eu\/en\/antikorupcija-detalji\/what-is-lobbying-393-en\/","title":{"rendered":"What is lobbying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lobbying is the act of trying to influence a politician or public official&nbsp;on an issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In politics,&nbsp;<strong>lobbying<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>persuasion<\/strong>, or&nbsp;<strong>interest representation<\/strong>&nbsp;is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials, most often legislators&nbsp;or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying, which usually involves direct, face-to-face contact, is done by many types of people, associations and organized groups, including individuals in the private sectors,&nbsp;corporations, fellow legislators or government officials, or advocacy groups (interest groups). Lobbyists may be among a legislator&#39;s constituencies, meaning a voter&nbsp;or bloc of voters&nbsp;within their electoral district; they may engage in lobbying as a business. Professional lobbyists are people whose business is trying to influence legislation, regulation, or other government decisions, actions, or policies on behalf of a group or individual who hires them. Individuals and non-profit organizations&nbsp;can also lobby as an act of volunteering or as a small part of their normal job. Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying that has become influential.<\/p>\n<p>The ethics and morals involved with legally bribing&nbsp;or lobbying are complicated. Lobbying can, at times, be spoken of with contempt&nbsp;when the implication is that people with inordinate socioeconomic power&nbsp;are corrupting&nbsp;the law in order to serve their own interests. When people who have a duty to act on behalf of others, such as elected officials with a duty to serve their constituents&#39; interests or more broadly the public good, can benefit by shaping the law to serve the interests of some private parties, a conflict of interest exists. Many critiques of lobbying point to the potential for conflicts of interest to lead to agent misdirection or the intentional failure of an agent with a duty to serve an employer, client, or constituent to perform those duties. The failure of government officials to serve the public interest as a consequence of lobbying by special interests who provide benefits to the official is an example of agent misdirection. That is why lobbying is seen as one of the causes of a democratic deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lobbying is the act of trying to influence a politician or public official&nbsp;on an issue. &nbsp; In politics,&nbsp;lobbying,&nbsp;persuasion, or&nbsp;interest representation&nbsp;is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials, most often legislators&nbsp;or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying, which usually involves direct, face-to-face contact, is done by many types of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"antikorupcija_category":[203],"class_list":["post-9973","antikorupcija","type-antikorupcija","status-publish","hentry","antikorupcija_category-lobbying"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.vdevs.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/antikorupcija\/9973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.vdevs.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/antikorupcija"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.vdevs.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/antikorupcija"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.vdevs.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.vdevs.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.vdevs.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"antikorupcija_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.vdevs.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/antikorupcija_category?post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}