Measuring the link between democracy and transparent lobbying

Šimral, Vít; Laboutková, Šárka

doi:10.1080/19460171.2020.1726195

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“…According to Dinan (2021), lobbying transparency assists public understanding of politics and the scrutiny of legislative processes, and thereby improves political accountability. Proponents of lobbying regulations argue that they produce transparency in decision-making, which means the public can see how offered views are reflected in the final decision and which views were considered and why (Šimral & Laboutková, 2021). In a democracy, for an effective administration, elected officials should be accountable for their decisions (Moncrieffe, 1998).…”

Section: Rationale For Lobbying Regulationsmentioning

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Regulating more? Comparing Ireland’s original and amended lobbying legislation

Hogan

2024

Administration

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This paper compares the amendments introduced by the Regulation of Lobbying and Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act 2023 with the original regulations of the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015. The study was conducted using the Hired Guns Method for assessing the robustness of lobbying legislation, developed by the Centre for Public Integrity (CPI), allowing findings to be compared with lobbying regulations internationally. The 2015 legislation was introduced after years of tribunals, scandals, unfulfilled political promises, and economic crisis, in an effort to increase the public’s trust in politicians, representative institutions, democracy and the wider bureaucracy. The 2023 Amendment came in the wake of a 2020 lobbying scandal. The paper finds that, despite the CPI score remaining unchanged, in-depth examination of the legislation showed that the amendment introduced more rules and sanctions, particularly in relation to designated public officials, and closed off outstanding legislative loopholes.

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Section: Rationale For Lobbying Regulationsmentioning

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Regulating more? Comparing Ireland’s original and amended lobbying legislation

Hogan

2024

Administration

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A black box assessment of institutional quality: the challenge of evaluating lobbying transparency

Laboutková

Vymětal

2022

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Blockchain and digital governance: Decentralization of decision making policy

Kassen

2023

Review of Policy Research

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Blockchain is gaining popularity as a potential solution for the decentralized management of public information. A number of interesting solutions have been proposed by independent developers around the world to promote blockchain as a promising platform to potentially accelerate democratic processes and achieve certain public values in reforming digital governance. This could be reflected in facilitating direct citizen participation in digital politics, promoting greater civic cooperation and engagement in political discussions, boosting the role of civic commentary and even collaborative decision‐making in e‐government. In this regard, the article critically elaborates on the potential of this technology to promote political dimensions of public sector reforms in a post‐positivist manner, resorting to the analysis of concrete e‐participation cases in a number of public areas where the potential has already been realized and the opinions of professional software developers who are currently engaged in building various blockchain‐driven data management solutions in the e‐government area. This paper identifies, debates, and draws on what benefits and risks public policy can yield from the implementation of blockchain governance.

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Measuring the link between democracy and transparent lobbying

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Regulating more? Comparing Ireland’s original and amended lobbying legislation

Regulating more? Comparing Ireland’s original and amended lobbying legislation

A black box assessment of institutional quality: the challenge of evaluating lobbying transparency

Blockchain and digital governance: Decentralization of decision making policy

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