Lobbying as a Way of Manifesting Public Goals: The Experience of Foreign Countries

The article is devoted to the study of foreign experience of using lobbying as a way of aggregating public goals. The author substantiates the relevance of this topic for the formation of modern assessments of the importance of the institution of lobbying in state legal practice, as well as for determining the possibilities of its legislative regulation. The article analyzes the conceptual model of lobbying as a form of public goal-setting through the prism of the functioning of civil society institutions in Western European countries and the states of North America. The Asian experience of the existence and functioning of these institutions in the mechanism of manifestation of lobbying is also considered. Based on the fact that social relations depend on the structure of society and are the result of direct social communication, collective in nature, their dependence is substantiated, among other things, on everyday consciousness, which is capable of succumbing to lobbying influence. Meanwhile, individual human activity has a conscious and purposeful character; it defines goals, objectives and - last but not least - the conditions that must be met in order to meet certain needs in order to achieve goals and objectives. Particular emphasis is placed on substantiating the proposition that the formed personal value orientations affect the quality of human relations in the context of the functioning of civil society institutions.

lobbying, public interest, civil society, social institutions, volunteer sector, “responsible government”