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Patterns of the legitimation of lobbying in Central Europe and its ambivalences : negotiating symbolic boundaries between the public and private spheres in Poland and the Czech Republic (1990-2016)

Abstract

The dissertation examines attempts to professionalize and institutionalize lobbying in Poland and the Czech Republic from the beginning of the 1990s to 2016, using the theoretical framework of the sociology of professions, the sociology of public policy-making and interpretive policy analysis. First, on the basis of a statistical analysis of the professional paths of eighty Polish and Czech commercial lobbyists, it presents their common typology for both countries and shows how efforts to gain recognition and enhance their professional status, i.e. efforts to professionalize lobbying, are linked to their pursuit of political legitimacy. Then it analyses the construction of lobbying as a policy problem, analysing the evolution of its use in the press, emblematic political scandals related to lobbying, as well as debates in parliamentary and policy expert fora. It then explores the conditions under which lobbying in both countries was constructed as a problem and set on the agenda. In doing so, the dissertation pays particular attention to the role of transnational actors in this process. Finally, lobbying regulation processes are analysed as arenas where the symbolic boundary between the public and private spheres is negotiated and redefined.

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