CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Isakova, Yulia Evgenyevna |
|---|---|
| Title | Factors of Lobbying Success in the USA: Case of SOPA and PIPA (2011 - 2012) |
| Summary | Technological progress of recent years has drammatically changed the political and information environment what has stimulated responsive shifts in political lobbying. This research investigates the aggregate of factors or aspects of lobbying that determine success of contemporary lobbying campaigns in the USA. This paper provides a case study, based on desk research of primary and secondary sources of information and imlementation of methods of qualitative research. The analysis reveals that there are four main categories of factors which significantly influence lobbying success in the USA: characteristics of the political system, features of a lobbying issue, characteristics of a lobbying group, and performance of lobbyists at particular stages of lobbying. This paper examines the impact of these factors in confrontation of lobbying coalitions around SOPA and PIPA in the USA in 2011 – 2012. There is a wide consensus among scholars about the decisive role of digital technologies in the victory of the nti-copyright coalition. However, this research reveals that the above four categories of factors also pre-determined lobbying success of that coalition. Nevertheless, this paper confirms a predominant shift towards wide use of the Internet technologies in lobbying in the USA. |
| Supervisor | Batory, Agnes |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/isakova_yulia.pdf |
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