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- ItemDEMOCRACY AND TRANSPARENT LOBBYING: MEASURING THEIR RELATIONSHIP(SILESIAN UNIV OPAVA, SCHOOL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION KARVINA, UNIVERZITNI NAM 1934-3, KARVINA, 73340, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2018) Laboutková, Šárka; Šimral, VítIn the present paper, we discuss a link between transparent lobbying and democracy. We assume that a better definition and a deeper understanding of attributes of the transparency of lobbying contribute to a more accurate assessment of quality of democracy and might help to develop more complex tools of measurement of quality of democracy in the future. The article proceeds as follows: first, after defining basic terms, we briefly introduce five common indices of quality of democracy and analyze its indicators in terms of transparency requirements. Second, we introduce the results of our existing research and propose a catalogue of measures supporting transparent lobbying. Third, we identify sub-indicators in the five introduced indices of democratic quality related to transparent lobbying and assign a value to each individual indicator in the indices to determine whether measures of transparent lobbying have relevance with respect to these indicators. Fourth, we carry out a rudimentary statistical analysis and discuss it. The analysis produces five findings which are significant for our understanding of indicators of democracy and tools of transparent lobbying.
- ItemMeasuring the link between democracy and transparent lobbying(Routledge, 2020) Šimral, Vít; Laboutková, ŠárkaIn this paper, we discuss the link between democracy and transparent lobbying indices. We assume that a deeper understanding of attributes of the transparency of lobbying help to develop more complex tools of measurement of quality of democracy. We briefly introduce five common indices of quality of democracy and analyze its indicators in terms of transparency requirements. Second, we present a catalog of all pro-lobbying transparency measures with four categories involving lobbyists, targets of lobbying, sunshine rules, and monitoring and sanctioning rules. Third, we carry out a statistical analysis of the democracy indices and lobbying indices. Fourth, we identify sub-indicators in the introduced indices and assign a value to each individual indicator in the indices to determine whether measures of transparent lobbying have relevance with respect to these indicators. Finally, the paper concludes with a discussion of the links found between indicators of the quality of democracy and transparent lobbying.