Lobbying, Democracy and Public Trust

An Institutional Diversion Framework

Barry Solaiman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2026
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
9781509955848 (ISBN)

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This open access book presents an all-encompassing way to understand lobbying: the ‘Diversion Guide’.

This shows that lobbying is problematic when institutions are diverted from acting in the public interest. It reveals why diversions happen, how they are linked together, and what can be done to prevent them. The reader can use the ‘Diversion Guide’ to identify any problem about lobbying, and test when an officeholder has been diverted from acting in the public interest.

The book examines how lobbying can encourage citizen participation and lead to informed law and policy, but is not always fair. It considers the way in which wealthy and influential people can gain greater access to the United Kingdom’s political system than most to shape the laws that govern everyone. Scandals are often reported in the media surrounding unequal access, corruption, the revolving door, and more. Unchecked, such lobbying corrodes trust in public institutions.

It is vital that the problems surrounding lobbying are clearly understood to avoid a system of weak regulations and to ensure that better regulations are created to restore public trust in politics. The ‘Diversion Guide’ can be used to this end.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Hamad bin Khalifa University.

Barry Solaiman is Assistant Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of Law at the College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar.

Part 1: The Nature of the Problem
1. What Is Institutional Diversion?

Part 2: The Diversion Guide
2. The Public Interest and Lobbying
3. Diversions Caused by Individual Malfeasance
4. Diversions Caused by Institutional Misfeasance
5. Diversions Caused by Political Inequalities

Part 3: Applying the Diversion Guide
6. Diversions in Government and Parliament

Part 4: Restoring Public Trust in Politics
7. Solutions That Don’t Work
8. The ‘Anti-Diversion’ Model of Regulation
9. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.8.2026
Reihe/Serie	Hart Studies in Constitutional Law
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9781509955848 / 9781509955848
Zustand	Neuware