This paper explains how institutional conditions in the European Parliament's committees shape lobbyists' strategic behaviour. Committees' informal organization and formal procedures structure both the distribution of legislative influence and the opportunity to obtain advocacy. It is...

En cette période de lutte contre les conflits d'intérêts (matérialisés par le Rapport Sauvé " Pour une nouvelle déontologie de la vie publique " remis au Président de la République le 26 janvier 2011), l'influence a mauvaise presse. Elle constitue pourtant l'un des trois piliers de...

An adversarial game is used to model the amount of influence a firm has over a government regulator, and its equilibrium level of regulation, as a function of firm fundamentals. The effective influence of a firm is identified as comprising both intrinsic and exerted components; where the latter...

If we left without attention of media content influence on child, we left the consumer without the support and assistance in perception and understanding of the heard and seen. Lack of knowledge, skills, feature psychological age, characteristic of young consumer, is easily subject to influences...

The quality of government in contemporary democracies is fundamentally related to the politicians’ degree of responsibility, particularly in what regards the members of parliament. Their responsibility depends largely upon the voters’ leverage of influence and control, both when they cast...

Recent research has advanced our understanding of how people use the advice of others to update their beliefs. Because groups and teams play a significant role in organizations and collectively are wiser than their individual members, it is important to understand their influence on belief...

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Factors influencing householders’ transferring out the cultivated land are analyzed from the aspects of farmers’ individual characteristics, farmers’ family features, resources endowment features and external environmental features. And based on the results of the...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the influence of government and foreign affiliates, particularly; multinational companies on corporate social reporting (CSR) development in an economy, where CSR awareness is low coupled with weak pressure group activism. Design/methodology/approach...