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"Instead of making and doing real laws to improve the lives of Bulgarian citizens, they are making heavy lobbyism. We proposed our alternative with an alternative budget, with alternative laws, nothing of which was accepted," she explained.

Overman (D-NC) noted, the tariff lobbying differed from "old-fashioned lobby in that it worked through an artificially created public sentiment." (17) Rather than using "personal appeals" to Senators like old style lobbyism, the "new lobby ...

Where unions, business firms and interest groups used to find themselves widely represented in government committees and other government bodies, today the same groups seek instead to achieve influence through, among other things, lobbyism and opinion building in the news media.

"There is a lot of lobbyism that hinders the system from changing, especially in the short-run," Gaugler said.

On the other hand, her research illuminates the lessons experienced by professional unions during the period of the post-military regime; the number of professional unions decreased, new ways of cooperation between the government of lobbyism were sought.

Moreover, Romanians feared that American economic imperialism was guided by (their) market interests, economic lobbyism and unfair competition, paying no attention to Romanian economic goals whatsoever.

From which point on lobbyism must be considered as improper conduct is, for example, not always clear."

He said that banks had lost so much credibility that any suggestions put forward by them are rejected as being lobbyism or self-interest.