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Course Syllabus

Бакалавриат 2025/2026

GR и лоббизм

Статус: Курс обязательный (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)
Кто читает: Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается: 3-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса
Преподаватели: Бодиштяну Николь
Язык: английский

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

The course starts with a methodological framing of GR, lobbying and political consulting, the 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

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

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

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

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Country presentation
  • non-blocking Lobbying report
  • non-blocking Lobbying presentation
  • non-blocking In-class participation
  • blocking Oral exam
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2025/2026 2nd module
    0.2 * Country presentation + 0.25 * In-class participation + 0.1 * Lobbying presentation + 0.15 * Lobbying report + 0.3 * Oral exam
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • 9780857194541 - Lionel Zetter - Lobbying : The Art of Political Persuasion, 3d ed. - 2014 - Harriman House - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2405309 - nlebk - 2405309
  • 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
  • BODDEWYN, J. J. (2014). The Power of Concepts, Typologies, Theories and Methodologies in International Business-Government Relations Research. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2014(1), 465–470. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2014.93
  • 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
  • Inter-state spillovers and lobbying. Препринт WR13/2007/16, Guriev, S., 2007
  • 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 advocacy : winning strategies, recommendations, resources, ethics and ongoing compliance for lobbyists and Washington advocates, Gelak, D. R., 2008
  • Lobbying and policymaking : the public pursuit of private interests, Godwin, K., 2013
  • Lobbying in the European Union : interest groups, lobbying coalitions, and policy change, Kluver, H., 2013
  • 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
  • Lobbying the European Union : institutions, actors, and issues, , 2011
  • 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
  • Stefanie Weil. (2017). Lobbying and Foreign Interests in Chinese Politics. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Szeto, M., & Young-Choon Kim. (2018). Costs and Benefits of Business-Government Relations: Empirical Analysis of Former-Communist Transition Economies. International Journal of Business & Society, 19(1), 219–232. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=128886150
  • The accountable corporation. Vol.4: Business-government relations, , 2006
  • Total lobbying : what lobbyists want (and how they try to get it), Nownes, A. J., 2006
  • Universities and the global knowledge economy : a triple helix of university- industry- government relations, , 1997

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Legality and Locality : The Role of Law in Central-Local Government Relations, Loughlin, M., 1996
  • Lobbying America : the politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA, Waterhouse, B. C., 2014
  • 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
  • The business of lobbying in China, Kennedy, S., 2005
  • Timothy Frye. (2002). Capture or Exchange? Business Lobbying in Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, (7), 1017. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966813022000017113
  • Мухаев, Р. Т. Government Relations: теория, стратегии и национальные практики. Полное руководство : учебник / Р. Т. Мухаев. — Москва : ИНФРА-М, 2024. — 393 с. — (Высшее образование). . - ISBN 978-5-16-019054-9. - Текст : электронный. - URL: https://znanium.ru/catalog/product/2083315

Authors

  • Кузнецова Елена Викторовна
  • Вишнякова Наталия Владимировна
  • BODISTEANU NICOLE