How can lobbying lead to political corruption?

The implicit understanding of politics is that the “special interests” and their lobbyists “buy” politicians, sort of like you'd buy a candy bar or a bag of chips ... read more

Political influence is bought regularly either overtly or covertly. Either way it can be seen being blatently practice in American political circles. A politician may accept direct cash donations, donations to their political campaign, dinners, houses, presents or any other number of, well to put it bluntly, bribes. read more

14 September 2009 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Lobbying, Politics and government, Private sector Back-corridor negotiation on proposed legislation is a practice that runs from Brasília to Washington, Bruxelles to ar-Rabāṭ. read more

The vast majority of 'lobbying' activities are perfectly legal and constructive. The bases of lobbying is that one party tries to educate and convince a policy maker on the merits of their cause. It is up to the policy maker to come to a decision based on his or her own judgment. read more