Political Consulting

2023/2024

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

5

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

4-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Преподаватель

Деревцов Николай Андреевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

In our course we start with a methodological framing of lobbying, main actors of the process, tactics and methods that they implement and ethical questions that these methods cause. We also touch the question of outside lobbying and the issues of lobbying in an international relations context. The second part of the course will be dedicated to the variety of national GR and lobbying traditions, including the most developed one in the US ending up to the peculiarities of lobbying in the African states. Finally we examine the developments of lobbying in Russia, mapping its main players, legislation base and perspectives.

Learning Objectives

• The course aims to introduce students to the key issues of the lobbying process in the modern world, and analysis of the most famous worldwide lobbying cases, their policy effects and ethical consequences.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to operate within the methodological framework of lobbying, understand the different traditions of lobbying, GR and political communications.
• Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to operate within the methodological framework of lobbying, understand the different traditions of lobbying, GR and political communications.

Course Contents

• Lobbying in Political theory: introduction into subject
• Institutions, agents and public group of interests in promoting private and public interests
• Lobbying Technologies: theoretical and practical aspects of promoting public and private interests
• Lobbying in the context of International Relations
• Lobbying and Ethics
• Lobbying and political consulting in a national political traditions: Anglo-Saxon World
• Lobbying in Continental Europe: actors, institutes, implementation and peculiarities
• Lobbying in states with archaic political systems: GR in African states
• GR and Lobbying in Russia: main actors and perspectives
• GR and Lobbying in Russia: key issues and peculiarities.

Assessment Elements

• In-class participation
• Midterm exam
• Group project

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 2nd module
  0.1 * Group project + 0.1 * Group project + 0.2 * In-class participation + 0.2 * In-class participation + 0.2 * Midterm exam + 0.2 * Midterm exam

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Arguing Americanism : Franco lobbyists, Roosevelt's foreign policy and the Spanish Civil War, Chapman, M. E., 2011
• Lobbying America : the politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA, Waterhouse, B. C., 2014
• Lobbying the European Union : institutions, actors, and issues / ed. by David Coen . (2009). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.307240266
• Pat Libby and Associates. (2011). The Lobbying Strategy Handbook : 10 Steps to Advancing Any Cause Effectively. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1236041
• Sharafutdinova, G., & Turovsky, R. (2016). The Politics of Federal Transfers in Putin’s Russia:Regional Competition, Lobbying and Federal Priorities. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.3A0C7FD4
• Timothy Frye. (2002). Capture or Exchange? Business Lobbying in Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, (7), 1017. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966813022000017113
• Tsygankov, A. P., & Palgrave Connect (Online service). (2009). Russophobia : Anti-Russian Lobby and American Foreign Policy (Vol. 1st ed). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=310657

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Rebecca H. Gordon, & Thomas M. Sussman. (2017). The Lobbying Manual : A Complete Guide to Federal Lobbying Law and Practice. [N.p.]: American Bar Association. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1840442

Authors

• GRIGOREVA YULIYA ANDREEVNA
• DEREVTSOV NIKOLAY ANDREEVICH