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Democracy and Lobbying

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This chapter discusses the relevance of lobbying for modern democracy. First, the notion of accountability as the key part of democracy is juxtaposed with other key notions of the democratic theory—participation, government, and governance. Then, specific models of democracy are briefly reviewed and compared, namely deliberate, participatory, and procedural democracy. The relationship of lobbying to these models is discussed. Finally, the two models, old and new, of government and governance, respectively, are presented together with the problem of a definition of lobbying.

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  1. Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic

    Šárka Laboutková

  2. University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Vít Šimral

  3. University of Economics, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Petr Vymětal

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Laboutková, Š., Šimral, V., Vymětal, P. (2020). Democracy and Lobbying. In: Transparent Lobbying and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36044-3_2

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