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Choosing lobbying sides : the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union
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Atikcan, Ece Ozlem and Chalmers, Adam William (2019) Choosing lobbying sides : the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union. Journal of Public Policy, 39 (4). pp. 543-564. doi:10.1017/S0143814X18000223
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X18000223
Abstract
Despite the impressive amount of empirical research on lobbying, a fundamental question remains overlooked. How do interest groups choose to lobby different sides of an issue? We argue that how groups choose sides is a function of firm-level economic activity. By studying a highly salient regulatory issue, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, and using a novel dataset of lobbying, we reveal that a group’s main economic sector matters most. Firms operating in finance and retail face unique costs and are incentivized to lobby against the GDPR. However, these groups are outgunned by a large, heterogeneous group of firms with superior lobbying firepower on the other side of the issue.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Public Policy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0143-814X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 39 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 543-564 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0143814X18000223 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in Journal of Public Policy https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-public-policy | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © Cambridge University Press, 2018 | ||||||||
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