GR and lobbying

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

3 year, 1, 2, 4 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course starts with a methodological framing of GR, lobbying and political consulting, main actors of the processes, tactics, and methods that they implement and ethical questions that these methods cause. The course also touches upon the issues of lobbying in an international context. The second part of the course is concentrated on 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 Eastern European states. Finally, the course examines the developments of lobbying in Russia, mapping its main players, legislation base and perspectives.

Learning Objectives

• The main objective of the course is to enable students to operate within the methodological and practical framework of GR and Lobbying
• To enable students operate within professional fields of GR and Lobbying

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Executes comparative analysis of commercial and non-commercial GR
• Is aware of main lobbying legislative regulation strategies
• Is aware of peculiarities of professional activity in the context of social media development
• Knows basic theoretical approaches to GR and lobbying
• Knows main technologies of GR and lobbying
• Manages the activities in the field of professional competencies of GR manager
• Plans and organizes events in the field of PR
• Knows basic rules of behaviour during GR and lobbying activities
• Is aware of sensitive components of GR and Lobbying activity

Course Contents

• Theories of GR&Lobbying: basic concepts, similarities and differences
• Ethics of GR&Lobbying
• Main GR practices
• Modern GR. Media strategies and models. GR in social networks.
• Legislative regulation of lobbying
• Lobbying practices: cases of Russian Federation, EU, USA.

Assessment Elements

• Activity
• Test
• In-class participation
• Country presentation
• Lobbying report
• Lobbying presentation
• Oral exam

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0 * Activity + 0.2 * Country presentation + 0.25 * In-class participation + 0.1 * Lobbying presentation + 0.15 * Lobbying report + 0.3 * Oral exam + 0 * Test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Alexander Leipold. (2018).  Lobbying in Europe: Public Affairs and the Lobbying Industry in 28 EU Countries, edited by A. Bitonti and P. Harris (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, ISBN 9781137552556); xxix+368pp., US$129.00 hb. Journal of Common Market Studies, 1, 204. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12699
• Baysinger, B. D., & Woodman, R. W. (1982). Dimensions of the Public Affairs/Government Relations Function in Major American Corporations. Strategic Management Journal (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 3(1), 27–41. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250030103
• Grosse, R. E. (2005). International Business and Government Relations in the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=139778
• Kambrod, M. R. (2007). Lobbying For Defense : An Insider’s View. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=653366
• Lobbying and policymaking : the public pursuit of private interests, Godwin, K., 2013
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Total lobbying : what lobbyists want (and how they try to get it), Nownes, A. J., 2006

Authors

• Кузнецова Елена Викторовна
• Bodishtianu NIKOL
• Вишнякова Наталия Владимировна