What is it about?
This paper analyses Israeli lobbying regulations bills and measures their strength according to the Center of Public Integrity Index in order to explore the path that resulted in passing the Lobbyist Law in 2008 and the following developments.
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Why is it important?
Lobbying is regulated currently in fourteen countries: the US, Argentina, Peru, Canada, Australia, Germany, Hungary, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Ireland and Israel and one confederation European Union (Parliament). One can observe a trend for more transparency, but there is a need to understand what lobbying regulations really accomplish.
Perspectives
Israel is a standout case of the only democracy in the Middle East that regulates lobbying and where the lobbying regulations displayed unexpected results: there were 500 percent more registered lobbyists in the Knesset after the law was put in place. So far, the legislative path in Israel is following the lobbying regulation trend of the USA and Canada and will hopefully become more rigorous as the bills will be passed, and a new lobbyist law will finally have some teeth.
Mr Albert Veksler
Dublin Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Lobbying in the sunshine-hiding behind transparency?, Journal of Public Affairs, June 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/pa.1564.
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