Bachelor 2025/2026

GR and lobbying

Type: Compulsory course (International Programme 'International Relations and Global Studies')

Delivered by: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

When: 3 year, 1, 2 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Nicole Bodishteanu

Language: English

Course Syllabus

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.