Professional lobbyists as representative claim-makers. The cases of Poland and the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2015-0013" target="_blank" >10.1515/humaff-2015-0013</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Professional lobbyists as representative claim-makers. The cases of Poland and the Czech Republic

Original language description

This article looks at the ways in which political representation is used as a symbolic resource of legitimacy by those acting as intermediaries between the private and the public sectors, professional lobbyists. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Michael Saward, the article puts forward an analysis of whether, how and in relation to whom lobbyists claim to be representatives in order to acquire a recognized position in the policy-making process. Representative claim-making by lobbyists matters, weargue, as an indicator of the status acknowledged by the public to private actors in politics. In the Czech and Polish cases, even though the invisible character of the lobbying practices seems to limit the range of roles lobbyists can adopt in front ofthe general public, lobbyists mobilize representation as a resource both directly and indirectly when brought to justify their involvement in public decision-making.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Human Affairs

ISSN

1210-3055

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

142-152

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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