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When it comes to technology, R&D, trade talks, and the like, the benefit for companies’ bottom line is direct and clear, and here Gates’ surprise is understandable, because corporate leaders typically lobby to participate and change the way governments think and act.
And its export lobby is fighting fiercely to keep the exchange rate roughly where it is relative to the dollar.
The myth of Israel’s military power, resourcefulness in economic and agricultural matters, and an exaggerated perception of its unique capacity to lobby and influence American policy combined to make the Israeli connection especially attractive to these countries.
But it is time to go further and begin to lobby aggressively for faster financial liberalization in the developing world.
They then extend their product lines instead of developing new products; cut costs by putting pressure on their workers; lobby governments for favorable treatment; merge with competitors to reduce competition; and manipulate customers to squeeze out every last penny.
As a result they now lobby the government vociferously and are gaining serious attention from lawmakers and law enforcement alike.
But, by absorbing some of the old fixers into TRT, Thaksin also absorbed a lobby antagonistic to reform.
BNP did lobby European authorities to make a too-big-to-jail plea to the US authorities.
The ALBA countries decided they would concede nothing to Obama, and attempt, instead, to back him into a corner: either the US would go along with the new OAS consensus, angering both parts of the Cuban-American lobby and the human rights community by abandoning principles and commitments, or the US would have to act alone (perhaps with Canada by its side), leaving it totally isolated in Latin America – the last thing Obama wants.
To this end, the Commission must improve oversight of the expenditure (and non-expenditure) of EU funds, and civil-society groups must learn how to lobby, rather than simply air grievances.
Democratic governments are hampered by lobby groups, special interests, public opinion, party politics, and so forth, while Asian autocrats can make unpopular but necessary decisions.
The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.
Last week Fatherland and All Russia each held separate congresses to lobby for their interests in forming the joint party list.
And here, Obama appears determined to undermine his own signature reform, owing to pressure from the powerful US pharmaceutical lobby.
In the 1970s, this defense was challenged by economists at the other end of the Western political spectrum, who pointed out that bureaucrats were a supplier lobby like any other.
Public sector firms have incentives to lobby for subsidies, protection and cheap credit.
Interestingly, in the midst of the political transition, Musharraf embarked on a week-long visit to China to lobby for construction of an oil and gas pipeline between China and the Persian Gulf that would be routed through Pakistan.
There is no political risk involved; the Swiss have no powerful lobby in the United States or the EU that they can mobilize; as the birthplace of private banking, Switzerland has enormous symbolic value; as the world leader in private banking, it triggers jealousies.
The Bush administration generally favored open trade; its hand was forced by the domestic steel lobby, at a time when the industry was generating large losses.
By stressing real human-rights abuses in Iran and Arab countries, this lobby group for Israel is suggesting that criticism (“scapegoating”) of Israel is not only wrong but immoral: “Your misguided actions ensure that LGBT people in the Middle East continue to live in hiding under constant threat of death.”
In trade zones formed by heterogeneous states, vested interests tend to be diverse and find it hard to lobby at the supranational level.
Partly for this reason, EU enlargement is superior--at least for financial markets--to political unification, which encourages vested interests to lobby at the central level.
But all of them make an economy less productive and redistribute wealth to small, coordinated groups with vested interests and a strong inclination to lobby the government.
But the reality is far less sinister: in that case, AIPAC merely surfed on the pro-invasion wave unleashed by President George W. Bush, with his Messianic urges, and Vice President Dick Cheney, a one-man war lobby.
Brave politicians who do tell the truth about climate change are found mainly in countries that do not have a powerful fossil-fuel lobby.
Unlike other commodities, the price of water is very often a political decision, subject to the influence of interest groups that lobby for subsidies.
First, there was a hard-money lobby: a substantial number of rich, socially influential, and politically powerful people whose investments were overwhelmingly in bonds.
Today, we have next to no hard-money lobby, almost all investors have substantially diversified portfolios, and nearly everybody suffers mightily when unemployment is high and capacity utilization and spending are low.
How can the US have a large political movement – the Tea Party – pushing for the hardest of hard-money policies when there is no hard-money lobby with its wealth on the line?
Second, we must actively confront the growing anti-vaccine lobby, which threatens to undo the gains made in recent years.
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