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“Those damned lobbyists!” For this famous curse, US President Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) is referred to as father of the term “lobbyist”. He complained about the ever-growing crowd of petitioners keen to catch a minute with the President, awaiting him in the entrance hall of the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C. where he frequently stopped by for a brandy or a cigar Since then, the term “lobbyism” – originally derived from the Latin word for cloister courtyard – refers to the influence of interest groups in policy-making (see Vondenhoff & Busch-Janser, pp. 13-15; Kolbe, Hönigsberger & Osterberg, 2011a, p. 2; Leif & Speth, 2006, pp. 18-19).
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Gründinger, W. (2017). Introduction: What Drives the Energiewende?. In: Drivers of Energy Transition. Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17691-4_1
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