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Transparency and integrity in lobbying

2015; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1787/gov_glance-2015-35-en

2221-4399

Santiago González, Guillaume Lafortune, Alessandro Lupi, Daniel Sánchez-Serra, Luiz De Mello, Edwin Lau, Stéphane Jacobzone, Andrew Davies, Ronnie Downes, Ian Hawkesworth, Lisa Trapp, Camilla Vammalle, Ihssane Loudiyi, Daniel Gerson, Christoph Demkke, Alice Lazzati, János Bertók, Julio Terracino, Maria-Emma Cantera, Jovana Blagotic, Yukihiko Hamada, Minjoo Son, Public, Céline Kaufmann, Christiane Arndt, Faisal Naru, Daniel Trnka, Manuel Flores Romero, Rebecca Schultz, Paulo Magina, Barbara Ubaldi, Arthur Mickoleit, Ryan Androsoff, Kate Lancaster, Katherine Kraig-Ernandes, Lia Beyeler, Laura Boutin, Peter van de Ven, Jennifer Ribarsky, Catherine La, Isabelle Ynesta, Michael Hewetson, Oliver Petzold, Gaétan Lafortune, Katarzyna Kubacka, Julie Bélanger, Sophie Vayssettes, Yvan Guillemette, Sylvie Toly, Ángel Gurría,

Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Lobbying is a fact of public life in all countries. It has the potential to promote democratic participation and can provide decision makers with valuable insights, as well as facilitate stakeholder access to public policy development and implementation. Yet, lobbying is often perceived as an opaque activity of dubious integrity, which may result in undue influence by special interests, unfair competition and regulatory capture at the expense of fair, impartial and effective policy making. There is evidence of an emerging consensus on the need for transparency. While by 2014 only 15 OECD countries have introduced lobbying regulations to this effect, there is a clear acceleration in this sense as 11 countries have done so in the last decade.