Opaque: an empirical evaluation of lobbying transparency in the UK
Opaque: an empirical evaluation of lobbying transparency in the UK
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DOI：
10.1057/s41309-019-00074-9
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
Wozniak, Antal
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作者：
McKay, Amy Melissa;Wozniak, Antal
英国政府被誉为世界上最透明的政府之一。然而，与许多其他国家相比，其5年的游说者登记册提供的有关针对英国政府的游说活动的信息很少。此外，它公布的与政府部长的会议清单是模糊的，延迟的，分散在许多在线位置。我们对超过72，000次报告的部长级会议和近1000名游说客户和顾问的分析显示，这两种信息来源之间存在重大差异。在同样的四个季度中，我们发现，在大厅登记册中列出的客户中，只有大约29%出现在与外部团体举行的部长级会议的公开记录中，在部长级会议记录中披露的团体中，只有不到4%出现在大厅登记册中。这两组数据之间的巨大差异，沿着其他证据，有助于我们得出结论，即政府本可以，而且仍然应该使游说登记册更加健全。
The government of the UK is reputed to be among the world's most transparent governments. Yet in comparison with many other countries, its 5-year-old register of lobbyists provides little information about the lobbying activity directed at the British state. Further, its published lists of meetings with government ministers are vague, delayed, and scattered across numerous online locations. Our analysis of more than 72,000 reported ministerial meetings and nearly 1000 lobbying clients and consultants reveals major discrepancies between these two sources of information about lobbying in the UK. Over the same four quarters, we find that only about 29% of clients listed in the lobby register appear in the published record of ministerial meetings with outside groups, and less than 4% of groups disclosed in ministerial meetings records appear in the lobby register. This wide variation between the two sets of data, along with other evidence, contribute to our conclusion that the Government could have made, and still should make, the lobby register more robust.