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Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka / Raccolta di scritti della Facoltà di giurisprudenza dell'Università di Rijeka / Gesammelte Schriften der Rechtswissen, Vol. 39 No. 2, 2018.

Preliminary communication

https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.39.2.7

LEGAL STATUS OF LOBBYISTS IN THE USA

Sanja Barić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-6496-9062 ; University of Rijeka, Law Faculty, Rijeka, Croatia
Ana Acinger orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-6496-9062 ; legal trainee, Rijeka, Croatia

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Abstract

Recognizing the importance of lobbying in modern democratic countries and its inevitability in the decisions-making process from the lower - local, to the highest levels of authority, the authors display lobbying in the United States, starting from the fact that United States have early recognized the importance of lobbying and its regulation, aiming to decrease transparency. In this way, the authors go through relevant provisions of legal acts regulating the legal position of the lobbyist from
the very beginnings to the present day, following and analyzing their advantages and disadvantages, and in particular the context of social reality as an impetus for further legislation. In this context, there is also a relationship between politics and lobbying, as well as the relationship of lobbying and fundamental human rights contained in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

Keywords

lobbying; legal status of lobbyists; United States; constitutional rights; transparency; human rights

Hrčak ID:

204636

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/204636

Publication date:

27.8.2018.

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