2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Regulation of Lobbying and the European Transparency Register
Published in:
Interest Representation in the European Union
‘Lobbying’ raises similar types of issues for most democratic political systems which leads to some degree of regulation. The core issue involves public assurance as to the probity of these exchanges. This is particularly important in the EU political system because of the high degree of reliance upon organized civil society to undertake core democratic mechanisms (Chapter 1).