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But, as an outsider, I am amazed at the apparent intensity of lobbying, and at the amounts of money that firms and their associations spend.
To be sure, a few new jobs will be created, mainly in the lobbying shops along K Street in Washington, DC, as Trump refills the swamp that he promised to drain.
For example, the Institute for International Finance, a preeminent Washington, DC-based lobbying group for large banks, consistently argues: bail us out, or else face the consequences.
And Kim already had a head start, after quietly lobbying member governments at the G7 summit in Japan this May and in personal visits to China and India in recent months.
It is difficult to imagine that US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, who has a fine record on human-rights protection, had her heart in lobbying to whitewash Israel.
The causes of their concern are clear enough: high unemployment and underemployment in advanced and emerging economies; inadequate skills and education for young people and workers to compete in a globalized world; resentment against corruption, including legalized forms like lobbying; and a sharp rise in income and wealth inequality in advanced and fast-growing emerging-market economies.
The infamous 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which many believe helped precipitate the Great Depression, was the result of such lobbying.
British law firms that have apparently made a lot of money representing libel plaintiffs from around the world impeded adoption of the new law through intense lobbying.
From think tanks and NGOs to media and business lobbying, Germans have become the EU’s foremost movers and shakers.
The diplomatic success at COP24 was remarkable, given relentless lobbying and foot-dragging by the fossil-fuel industry.
In Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court has ordered parliamentarians to reveal their outside income – often from lobbying activities on behalf of big business – on the Internet.
When America had such a ban, from September 1994-September 2004, it helped to limit mass shootings; yet Congress failed to renew the ban, owing to intense lobbying from gun enthusiasts.
In India, for example, a draft mini-grid policy has languished for two years, while in Sub-Saharan Africa, good intentions are often derailed by bureaucracy and lobbying from big power companies.
Facebook’s immense lobbying power has so far mostly fended off the practical ideas of Quintarelli, Spiekermann, and their fellow campaigners.
Corporate insiders are an especially powerful lobbying group because of their ability to use some of the resources of the companies under their control.
Because insiders gain the full benefits that arise through lobbying for lax corporate governance rules, while their firms bear most of the costs of such lobbying, insiders have an advantage in the competition for influence over politicians.
Their lobbying, which is carried out at the expense of their companies, is subsidized by their shareholders.
While individual investors cannot be expected to invest in lobbying for stronger investor protection, it might be hoped that institutional investors – mutual funds, banks, insurance companies, and so forth – will do so.
But institutional investors usually do not provide a sufficient counter-weight to lobbying by corporate insiders.
In contrast to corporate insiders, institutional investors cannot charge the costs of lobbying to the publicly traded companies whose investor protection is at stake.
This reduces the willingness of institutional investors to invest in counteracting insider lobbying.
Moreover, those who make decisions for institutional investors often have interests that discourage lobbying for stronger constraints on corporate insiders.
But pursuit of perfection should not be allowed to impede progress, especially in an environment in which American and British regulators, in particular, are already struggling against a fierce headwind of lobbying by financial firms and threats by them to relocate, much like today’s corporate-tax optimizers.
Owing to their substantial market power and lobbying prowess, they now regularly engage in the kind of rent-seeking activities that were once the exclusive preserve of the financial industry.
Beyond lobbying, the current system is upheld by mythology: the belief that keeping older people in the workforce worsens unemployment.
The key driver of the EU’s regulatory onslaught is not concern for the welfare of ordinary Europeans; it is the lobbying power of protectionist German businesses and their corporatist champions in government.
Most of them probably depend directly on donations from the Koch brothers and the lobbying organizations that they secretly finance.
When it comes to lobbying, money is not everything: ideas play a big role, too.
More importantly, the lobbying of the quasi-governmental mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would not have been so successful without the idea of the “ownership society.”
If ideas are like weapons in lobbying, it is important to appreciate the possible distortions in the market for their creation and diffusion.
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