Abstract Electronic lobbying efforts have become an essential, yet profoundly underutilized strategy of nonprofit … and perceived effectiveness of nonprofit electronic lobbying activities and the communication channels employed for this … activities. The study concludes that state nonprofit associations actively utilize email as an electronic lobbying activity to …

their influence to get the historic tax reform package passed. However, the successful passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act …

and observation of the developing lobbying industry around the new Scottish Parliament, spanning the period from late 1998 … for news and analyses of issues relating to lobbying at the new Parliament, undertook focus group research to test public …. Originality/value – The paper challenges the assertions that lobbying is misunderstood by elected representatives and that the …

Purpose – Lobbying and lobbyists have for some time been regarded with suspicion and even outright mistrust by …/implications – While it is unrealistic to claim that 60 interviews constitute a fully representative sample of the entire lobbying industry … lobbying industry must engage in more explicitly as to the qualities required by lobbyists. In order to produce a reasonably …

actually perform and what indispensable functions they claim to provide. Findings – The results highlight lobbying, political …

This paper examines the lobbying behaviour of UK managers who commented on Accounting Standard Board proposals to re … a company, and thus its dividend paying capacity, is a plausible reason for observed lobbying behaviour in the UK.  …

(CAR), franchise value and lobbying, affect various measures of risk in the US banking industry before, during and after … during the crisis. The authors further find evidence suggesting that lobbying decreases bank risk in non-crisis years and … lobbying activities by bank holding companies on bank risk before, during and after the financial crisis.  …

Purpose – This paper aims to prepare executives to pilot a US lobbying effort within the bounds of the US Federal law …. Lobbying law may be thought of as the “regulation of regulation”, as it defines the ground rules for those wishing to have a … direct impact upon all other regulatory systems. The article outlines what the US lobbying law requires, what it forbids and …

building is integrated and the hypothesis of state fragility being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de facto power … holders is tested. Findings The resulting interesting finding is that political interference, rent seeking and lobbying … are two main policy implications. First, political interference, rent seeking and lobbying are likely to increase the …