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    STUDIA EPHEMERIDES - Issue no. 1 / 2001  
         
  Article:   LOBBY – A FORM OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY.

Authors:  TEOLIN CODREANU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The present paper ("Lobby – A Form of Communication Between the State and the Civil Society") provides a quick overview over lobbying as a political activity and, furthermore, a short analysis of whether or not lobbying regulations should be promoted by the Romanian government. Lobbying is, basically, a form of communication between a public institution or officer (e.g. the Government, the Parliament) and group of persons that share the same interests; it is both a feedback for the public institution and a way of promoting one’s interests. Lobbying activities are done in various ways like, for example, providing information or expertise, counselling, public opinion forming etc. Lobbying does exist in most of today’s countries; nonetheless, it is legally enshrined by only a few of them, this being the reason why only some countries were selected for the present analysis. Modern democracies experience a decrease in the importance of the political parties and the proliferation of interest groups, in other words, a decrease of the importance of the general interests and the diversification and proliferation of private interests. That is why lobby regulations are necessary for the health of modern democracies.  
         
     
         
         
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