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This book presents the first large-scale study of lobbying
strategies and outcomes in the United States and the European
Union, two of the most powerful political systems in the world.
Every day, tens of thousands of lobbyists in Washington and
Brussels are working to protect and promote their interests in the
policymaking process. Policies emanating from these two spheres
have global impacts - they set global standards, they influence
global markets, and they determine global politics. Armed with
extensive new data, Christine Mahoney challenges the conventional
stereotypes that attribute any differences between the two systems
to cultural ones - the American, a partisan and combative approach,
and the European, a consensus-based one. Mahoney draws from 149
interviews involving 47 issues to detail how institutional
structures, the nature of specific issues, and characteristics of
the interest groups combine to determine decisions about how to
approach a political fight, what arguments to use, and how to frame
an issue. She looks at how lobbyists choose lobbying tactics,
public relations strategies, and networking and coalition
activities. Her analysis demonstrates that advocacy can be better
understood when we study the lobbying of interest groups in their
institutional and issue context. This book offers new insights into
how the process of lobbying works on both sides of the Atlantic.
In 2015, sixty million people were displaced by violent conflict
globally - the highest since World War II. National and
international policy prevents the displaced from working or moving
freely outside the camps set up to 'temporarily' house them. This
policy has left the displaced with no right to work and move while
they remain displaced for years, if not decades. Based on data on
all 61 protracted displacement crises worldwide, fieldwork in seven
conflict zones around the world, and in-depth interviews with over
170 humanitarian aid workers, government officials and refugees,
this book systematically details the barriers to effective advocacy
at every level of governance and shows that failure is the norm.
Unlike many academic monographs, it goes further and proposes an
alternative way forward that capitalizes on social
entrepreneurship, crowd-funding and micro-finance to improve the
lives of those that have been forced to flee their homes to find
safety.
In 2015, sixty million people were displaced by violent conflict
globally - the highest since World War II. National and
international policy prevents the displaced from working or moving
freely outside the camps set up to 'temporarily' house them. This
policy has left the displaced with no right to work and move while
they remain displaced for years, if not decades. Based on data on
all 61 protracted displacement crises worldwide, fieldwork in seven
conflict zones around the world, and in-depth interviews with over
170 humanitarian aid workers, government officials and refugees,
this book systematically details the barriers to effective advocacy
at every level of governance and shows that failure is the norm.
Unlike many academic monographs, it goes further and proposes an
alternative way forward that capitalizes on social
entrepreneurship, crowd-funding and micro-finance to improve the
lives of those that have been forced to flee their homes to find
safety.
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