PR, Lobbyism and Democracy: Mapping the revolving door in Denmark from 1981 to 2015

Autor: Blach-Ørsten Mark, Willig Ida, Pedersen Leif Hemming
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Nordicom Review, Vol 38, Iss 2, Pp 19-31 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2001-5119
DOI: 10.1515/nor-2017-0405
Popis: The growth of PR in Scandinavia is linked both to the mediatisation of politics and to the decline of corporatism. Studies in Sweden and Norway suggest that one consequence of these changes is the increasing number of politicians who find new careers as lobbyists in the private sector. In this study, we have constructed a data set of all members of the Danish Parliament who have left politics from 1981 to 2015 (n = 613) and identified the number and type of job positions they have taken up subsequently (n = 1,094). We find that, especially from the 1990s, we can register revolving door activity. Still, 89 per cent of all the registered job positions fall outside of lobbyism. 11 per cent of the job positions fall within the wider field associated with the emerging field of policy professionals (including lobbyism), while lobbyism on its own accounts for two per cent of the job positions.
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