practice and public opinion

Good Morning everyone ! Firstly, we would like to thank you for being so much to follow us on our blog, days after days!   FRANCE: Behind the national assembly curtains many lobbies are trying to affect laws and power, sometimes they try to corrupt deputies with gift, already written amendements or brainwash conferences. But what […]

legal issus

Hello everyone!   You will probably have understood with our article of presentation, that we are both students in law and political science. So, today, we cannot talk about lobbies without seeing the legal issue!   FRANCE: When you read headlines of newpaper it is possible to find questions such as: Are lobbies a threat […]

history

Good Morning everyone! In order to learn more about the lobbies and how things started, we have to go back in time!   USA Technically, the lobby has existed since the first amendment of the American Constitution, was adopted in 1791; after the ratification of 1789. According to the constitution of United States of America, […]

introduction

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama defined lobbys such as « powerful interest groups which can obstruct necessary change in the world ». The general public’s point of view concerning lobbies is nowadays dealing with a lot of criticism.   Indeed, in France this issue is discussed daily since the Minister of Ecology resigned last month. Hulot […]

Presentation

Hello, let’s introduce ourselves we are two students in law and political sciences. We study at the Catholic University of Lille, in the North of France. During the last year of our license, we have been doing many research on the practices of Lobbies in France and in the United States. We realized that nobody […]