We can draw on a similar model for a strong Global hub that supports country specific lobbying with boots on the ground to clear the way for favorable market conditions.
In both cases, specific lobbying activities can be understood or situated within larger corporate political strategies.
Although we use the word "lobbying", the basic dynamics observed in the model do not require there to be an organized medical, pharmaceutical, or hospital association with a specific lobbying fund supporting politicians; real-world health care interest lobbies are much more subtle.
Though again that dollar value would be spread across multiple GOOG interests — so it's hard to sum the specific copyright lobbying bill.
The company says it complies with the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 by submitting quarterly reports on Wal-Mart and WAL-PAC spending to Congress, available on their website -- outlining its lobbying expenditures, specific legislative items it lobbied on, and who lobbied on Wal-Mart's behalf.
Campaigners have used open data about lobbying to shine a light on the composition of the influence industry in Washington and Brussels, as well as on specific topics like lobbying around data privacy laws.
Underlying these specific demands, the lobby will urge MPs to draw on the decades of research by women's organisations on the policies and practices that will help us build an equal future for women and men.
The politics of gun control will form the basis for this week's print column, but this posting is about something more specific: the gun lobby's focus on mental illness as the "true" cause of such massacres.The message discipline of the National Rifle Association and congressional allies has been impressive.
It's not targeting any specific legislation to lobby for or against.
Without a specific constituent group lobbying for conservation of non-game fishes, all such species, including members of the catostomid family, will continue to face serious risks because of neglect, ignorance, and misunderstanding.
