Municipal elections that were held on 5 December 2000 ushered in a developmental system of local government, with specific political, economic and social challenges. This first democratic term of municipal councils was based on newly developed local government legislation, and reduced the number of councillors from approximately 12 000 to approximately 9 000. The system was unique, in that it provided for, amongst other things, the designation of certain full-time councillors, and also introduced the office of Speaker. The roles and responsibilities of councillors were clearly stated in law, and this distinguished the envisaged functions for councillors from their former ceremonial duties. Based on recommendations made by the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office-bearers, the Minister for Provincial and Local Government introduced a remuneration system to coincide with the new term of municipal councils. However, due to certain shortcomings in the newly introduced system, stakeholders expressed their misgivings with the remuneration dispensation that was introduced. This study investigates the evolution of local government in South Africa, and then elaborates on recent advancements made in this regard. The study shows how the roles and responsibilities of councillors evolved. More specifically, it initially attempts to identify relevant provisions that deal with the remuneration of all public officebearers, and then focuses on the remuneration for members of municipal councils. Due to the constantly changing provisions relating to the remuneration of councillors, this study examines all interventions made by government until 14 November 2005, when the Minister for Provincial and Local Government published the upper limits of remuneration to be paid to councillors in terms of the relevant provisions in the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act, 1998 (Act No. 20 of 1998). It would be most feasible to implement the recommendations made in this dissertation with effect from the date of commencement of the financial year for municipalities during the second term of municipal councils, in terms of section 64 of the Local Government: Municipal Electoral Act, 2000 (Act No. 27 of 2000). Additional information available on a CD stored at the Merensky Library / Thesis (PhD (Public Affairs))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) / unrestricted

"Issues of gender have always, and continue to, inhibit women from access to public office. With the increase of gender mainstreaming and struggle for equality, the internntional community has become increasingly aware of the absence of women in politics. The aims of this dissertation is not only, however, to be conscious of women's absence in politics, but to also take steps to redefine sound strategies to implement gender equality in terms of the political participation of women on the part of governments. This dissertation will focus on the place accorded to South African women in relation to the consolidation of a fairly new democracy, compared and contrasted to the struggle of their Cameroonian counterparts within the context of a much older democracy. Moreover, ratified conventional instruments as well as domestic constitutional dispositions currently in force in Cameroon dictate gender equality, thus calling for the implementation of special measures to enhance the participation of women. Yet, there have been no serious efforts on the part of Cameroon to revise or abrogate numerous coexisting discriminatory provisions and practices that perpetrate systematic discrimination against women in various ways within existing institutions. ... Chapter one sets out the scope of the study through the identification of the research problem and outlines the chosen methodology. This chapter also states the aims and objectives of the paper as well as its limitations. Chapter two considers the international and regional provisions governing women's rights. The main aim of this chapter is to recoup dispositions in human rights instruments with specific reference to gender equality and the participation of women in public life. Chapter three gives a historical backdrop of the participation of women in politics in both countries and sets out the domestic and constitutional provisions that relate to the status of women in politics in both Cameroon and South Africa. It also contains case studies to elucidate the particular challenges faced by women in these two countries. Chapter four analyses the extent to which Cameroon and South Africa have complied with international, regional as well as national human rights standards pertaining to women's political participation rights. The final chapter will contain conclusions and recommendations." -- Introduction. / Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2004. / Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Letitia van der Poll, Faculty of Law of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

This dissertation is devoted to the study of who used the formal channels of interaction in the early modern era and why. It examines the full range of the political conversation in early modern Sweden, as seen in the supplications to the Diet in the Age of Liberty (1719–1772), and more specifically the supplications submitted to the parliamentary committee tasked with handling them, the Screening Deputation. The literature yields few systematic studies of this official channel, and supplications have long been terra incognita in the early modern political landscape. Their exact importance is uncertain, to say the least. Using a database built on three samples from the beginning, middle, and end of the Age of Liberty, the Diet's supplication channel is shown to have been used by two groups: supplicants from state-affiliated households primarily tried to use it to pursue their claims on the state, to settle various issues related to employment, or to receive some sort of support through hard times; and, increasingly, commoners, especially delegates in the Estate of the Burghers, used the channel for their gravamina concerning commerce, taxation, and the like, and state support for public amenities, a group for whom the Screening Deputation offered an alternative route to getting their grievances heard by the Diet. Both groups increasingly used the Diet's supplication channel was appeal the verdicts of the King in Council (Kungl. Maj:t). Although most were not appeals against the Judicial Audit, the results reveal an active use of appeals, and thus a de facto erosion of Kungl. Maj:t's supremacy. The results also show that as many as three-fifths of all supplicants had their supplications accepted by the Screening Deputation for further examination by the Diet. Although the acceptance rate was definitely lower in the 1730s and 1740s, the committee seems to have been fairly benevolent in its interpretation of the rules on petitioning. The results, lastly, show that although the Diet's supplication channel allowed excluded groups direct access to the Diet - including women of all classes, commoners of rank, and unrepresented groups - it mainly catered to men with the social status or wealth that put them in the middle and upper strata of society. Although this supplication channel stood open to anyone, its egalitarian potential was seemingly never realized. The use of March and Olsen's institutional theory about the logic of appropriateness, has revealed that certain institutional templates and norms that would have enabled these groups more access to the channel succumbed and made room for other institutional foundations. Supplications were part of the medieval and early modern centralization of legal and political power, the formation of the state, the protection of the privileges of Swedish subjects, and, during the Age of Liberty, the power struggle between the Diet and the kings. Each supplication viewed by itself might seem trivial, but nonetheless played a part in each and every one of these major processes. An ordinary Swede could have an impact on early modern politics when acting in concert with other supplicants, like rain eating away at rock.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:24:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Marcio Cesar Fontes Silva.pdf: 1747069 bytes, checksum: a1a8518005b67123054b224e03f4bbd6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-24 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This Project deals with criminal investigation by both judicial police and Public Office in Brazil, with respect to their constitutional attribution to it. There is no doubt that the Constitution of the Republic attributed this function to the organs of Judicial Police, namely Federal and Civil (State) Police, in 1988. Nevertheless, the Public Office has ventured in this field, stating that they also have attributions, using various arguments, among them the theory of implicit powers, subconstitutional empowering, that is, the organic laws of the institution, since criminal investigation is not a exclusive attribution of Judicial Police, the Constitution does not forbid its carrying out by the Public Office. The whole project was done in the light of the Brazilian Constitution and subconstitutional current legislation, with reference to philosophy, history and jurisprudence. Initially, we tackle with a philosophical foundation of legal ordering the common good, society, justice and law, as they are basic for a correct understanding of the issue at stake. Next we establish the relevant constitutional premisses. Then we examine the founding of existence of penal process from the point of view of the instruments of right ensuring. After that we study the principles and penal procedural systems, within our philosophical and constitutional design. The research then moves to the functioning of criminal investigation in Brazil. Finally, we deal with the impossibility of Public Office to assume directing or directly performing criminal investigation, through the reasons that lead us to that conclusion, and considering that, in spite of not being an exclusive function of Judicial Police, the Constitution expressly foresees exceptions. The project also presents a critical view of the Public Office initiative in elaborating administrative acts, which represents an attempt to take over a function that the Constitution of Brazil attributes to Judicial Police, and a breaking of the current system in use / A monografia trata da investigação criminal, da polícia judiciária e do Ministério Público, no tocante àquela atribuição. Não há dúvida que a Constituição da República de 1988, outorgou a função investigatória criminal aos órgãos de Polícia Judiciária: Polícia Federal e Polícia Civil (estadual). Contudo, o Ministério Público tem se aventurado nesta seara, aduzindo que também possui atribuição para tanto, usando de diversos argumentos, dentre os quais: a teoria dos poderes implícitos; autorização infraconstitucional, ou seja, das leis orgânicas da instituição, porquanto não sendo a investigação criminal atribuição exclusiva da Polícia Judiciária, a Constituição não veda sua realização pelo Ministério Público; etc. Toda a pesquisa foi realizada à luz da Constituição e da legislação infraconstitucional em vigor, abordando também elementos filosóficos, históricos e jurisprudenciais. Inicialmente abordam-se os fundamentos filosóficos do ordenamento jurídico bem comum, sociedade, justiça e direito , vez que imprescindíveis ao seu correto entendimento e compreensão. Logo após são estabelecidas as premissas constitucionais que importam ao tema. Depois são examinados os fundamentos de existência do processo penal sob a ótica da instrumentalidade garantista. Em seguida, passa-se ao estudo dos princípios e dos sistemas processuais penais, tudo em conformidade com o desenho filosófico e constitucional traçado. Prossegue a pesquisa abordando o funcionamento da investigação criminal brasileira. Por fim, disserta-se sobre o problema da impossibilidade do Ministério Público brasileiro dirigir ou realizar diretamente investigação criminal, expondo os motivos que levam a essa conclusão, considerando-se que, apesar de não ser atribuição exclusiva da Polícia Judiciária, a Constituição, expressamente, previu as exceções. Ademais o trabalho critica a iniciativa do Ministério Público em elaborar atos administrativos, buscando usurpar função atribuída pela Constituição à Polícia Judiciária, quebrando, assim, a sistemática vigente

A presente pesquisa realiza uma análise crítica do uso e da apropriação de espaços públicos da cidade de São Paulo, com foco nas praças públicas, para através destas apreender como se dá o uso e a apropriação das mesmas, além de analisar a atual função do espaço público na metrópole de São Paulo do século XXI. Para alcançarmos este objetivo traçamos duas estratégias de pesquisa, a primeira baseada na discussão teórica dos dois conceitos-chave espaço público e praça pública, somada à retrospectiva histórica das ações dos órgãos públicos para a administração dos espaços públicos. A segunda estratégia de investigação científica foi a realização do estudo de caso de cinco praças distribuídas ao longo de um transepto, através das quais pudemos observar, analisar e compreender o uso e apropriação de praças públicas na cidade. Haja vista que o propósito da pesquisa é a análise das praças públicas da cidade de São Paulo, de grande dimensão territorial e de características socioeconômicas diversas e de realidades distintas no que tange a seus espaços públicos, buscamos praças localizadas em bairros e regiões distintas (bairros do centro expandido à periferia), buscando assim abarcar uma parte mais representativa da complexa realidade dos espaços públicos da metrópole de São Paulo. Ao final da análise crítica, propusemos algumas ações e medidas para a Política Pública Municipal de Gestão do espaço público, além de sugerirmos uma nova postura dos órgãos públicos municipais frente às questões relacionadas aos espaços públicos, buscando, principalmente, a sua valorização. / This research conducts a critical analysis of the use and ownership of public spaces in the city of São Paulo, with a focus on public squares. The main goal is to learn through this how the use and ownership of these squares take place, and to analyze the current role of public space in the metropolis of the twenty-first century. To achieve this goal we established two research strategies, the first theoretical discussion based on two key concepts of public space and public square, plus the historical review of the actions of public agencies for the administration of public spaces. The second strategy for scientific research was the use of five case studies of squares distributed along a transept, through which we can observe, analyze and understand the use and appropriation of public squares in the city. Considering that the purpose of research is the analysis of the public squares of the city of São Paulo, within large regional and socioeconomic characteristics of various and different realities with respect to its public spaces, we sought squares located in different regions and districts (districts expanded from the city center to the periphery), thus seeking to cover a more representative part of the complex reality of the public spaces of the metropolis of São Paulo. At the end of the review, we have proposed certain actions and measures for the Municipal Public Policy Management of public space, and suggesting a new position of municipal public agencies faced with the issues related to public spaces, seeking mainly the recovery of said places.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-28T10:23:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Vitor Kleber Almeida Santos.pdf: 1728588 bytes, checksum: 81b24a8fc5c1f043668fc2185e578654 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-28T10:23:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vitor Kleber Almeida Santos.pdf: 1728588 bytes, checksum: 81b24a8fc5c1f043668fc2185e578654 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-17 / The objective of this paper is to investigate the nature and purpose of the positions in commission and the existence of constitutional limits applicable in the creation of these positions. The Federal Constitution of 1988 (article 37, II) establishes, as a rule, the obligation of prior approval in a public competition for investiture in public positions. However, at the same time, it excludes from this rule the appointment to positions in commission, which are those declared in a law of free appointment and dismissal, destined exclusively for the assignments of direction, leadership and advisory, and the law should reserve a percentage of these positions and career servers (Article 37, subsections II and V). This is an exception to the public procurement procedure and, as such, must comply with the exceptional circumstances laid down by the Constitution. However, many abuses are committed by setting up commission positions to serve personal and party interests, to the detriment of the public interest. In order to do so, positions in commission are created with labels of direction, leadership and advice, but with merely technical or bureaucratic attributions that do not depend on the bond of trust with the superior authority and also in excessive amounts and above the real needs of the Public Administration . Such facts have led the control bodies to act in an increasingly forceful way in the fight against these patrimonialist practices. The doctrine and jurisprudence have advanced in this matter, but there is still no clarity regarding the limits effectively imposed by the Federal Constitution for the creation of these positions, which is why we seek to understand these limits in order to contribute to the desired legal certainty in the matter and to the achievement of an increasingly efficient and democratic Public Administration / O objetivo do presente trabalho é investigar a natureza e finalidade dos cargos em comissão e a existência de limites constitucionais aplicáveis na criação desses cargos. A Constituição Federal de 1988 (artigo 37, II) estabelece, como regra, a obrigatoriedade da prévia aprovação em concurso público para investidura em cargos públicos. Porém, ao mesmo tempo, excetua dessa regra a nomeação para cargos em comissão, que são aqueles declarados em lei de livre nomeação e exoneração, destinados exclusivamente às atribuições de direção, chefia e assessoramento, devendo a lei reservar um percentual desses cargos a servidores de carreira (artigo 37, incisos II e V). Trata-se de uma exceção à regra do concurso público e, como tal, deve ater-se às situações excepcionais estabelecidas pela Constituição. Entretanto, muitos abusos são cometidos com a criação de cargos em comissão para atender interesses pessoais e partidários, em detrimento do interesse público. Para tanto, criam-se cargos em comissão com rótulos de direção, chefia e assessoramento, mas com atribuições meramente técnicas ou burocráticas que prescindem do vínculo de confiança com a autoridade superior e, ainda, em quantidades excessivas e superiores às reais necessidades da Administração Pública. Tais fatos tem levado os órgãos de controle a atuar de forma cada vez mais contundente no combate a essas práticas patrimonialistas. A doutrina e a jurisprudência têm avançado nessa matéria, mas ainda não há clareza a respeito dos limites efetivamente impostos pela Constituição Federal para criação desses cargos, razão pela qual busca-se, no presente trabalho, compreender esses limites com vistas a contribuir para a almejada segurança jurídica na matéria e para a consecução de uma Administração Pública cada vez mais eficiente e democrática

Orientadores: Moacyr Trindade de Oliveira Andrade, Floriano Peixoto de Azevedo Marques Neto / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T10:40:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Landini_LuizAlbertoRodrigues_D.pdf: 1207326 bytes, checksum: b2ca669a4eb5daf92ea3a407e474da70 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: A reestruturação e a privatização do setor elétrico a partir de 1995 redefiniram o papel do Estado neste setor, que passa a assumir a função regulatória e de controle em substituição às atividades de agente empreendedor. Com essa não interveniência o Estado tornou-se apenas responsável pela regulação, fiscalização e controle dos serviços públicos concedidos de energia elétrica, sendo que o fortalecimento do marco regulatório se deu com a criação da Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica ¿ ANEEL, instituída pela Lei nº 9.427, de 26 de dezembro de 1996. Paradoxalmente a isso, os serviços de infra-estrutura de energia elétrica, para que possam ser implementados, necessitam da intervenção do Estado na propriedade do particular. Assim ocorre na geração, transmissão e na distribuição de energia elétrica. Um país de dimensões continentais como o Brasil, torna tais serviços de grande complexidade para sua implementação, pois desde a geração da energia elétrica até os grandes centros consumidores há necessidade da implantação de uma vasta rede de linhas transmissoras e distribuidoras que transpassam por inúmeras propriedades sobre as quais recaem os ônus da servidão, ou, quando não, são desapropriadas para a destinação a ser dada pelas concessionárias, trazendo sérios transtornos aos seus proprietários. Neste contexto observa-se no presente trabalho que, conquanto o detentor do imóvel não perde o domínio de sua propriedade, pois não há a transferência dela para a concessionária nos casos de instituição de servidão de passagem de linhas transmissoras e distribuidoras de energia elétrica, há sempre a restrição quanto ao uso, gozo e fruição da mesma. Diferindo da faixa de servidão, na desapropriação ocorre a transferência da propriedade para o titular do direito à expropriação, fazendo com que o proprietário perca sua propriedade para o Estado, representado por quem esse tenha outorgado a concessão ou permissão para a exploração do serviço. Para tanto, compete ao poder concedente como medida preparatória, a emissão dos atos declaratórios de utilidade pública para fins de desapropriação ou de instituição de servidão administrativa no setor elétrico tal qual previsto na Lei nº 8.987, de 13 de fevereiro de 1995 (Lei de Concessões), que dispõe sobre o regime de concessão e permissão da prestação de serviços públicos previsto no caput do art. 175 da Constituição Federal. No entanto, a reestruturação e a privatização de diversos setores, tais quais previstos no Programa Nacional de Desestatização - PND, trouxeram algumas dificuldades que não eram observadas quando todas as empresas implementadoras de infra-estrutura eram estatais. Neste contexto se situam as empresas prestadoras dos serviços públicos de energia elétrica, e de rodovias, em face das controvérsias verificadas quanto à utilização transversal e longitudinal das faixas de domínio das rodovias por empresas transmissoras e distribuidoras de energia elétrica, em razão de cobranças pecuniárias para sua utilização, denominadas como receitas complementares ou acessórias. O presente trabalho além de abordar o entendimento das concessionárias envolvidas, e das agências ARTESP, CSPE, ANEEL, e ABCR, ao final, trata de questão recém regulamentada, ou seja, a incorporação das redes particulares de distribuição, que não disponham de ato autorizativo do poder concedente, ao patrimônio das concessionárias de energia elétrica, em face da disposição contida na Lei nº 10.848, de 15 de março de 2004, que dispõe sobre a comercialização de energia, dando, também, outras providências. Estas questões, entre outras, são discutidas no presente trabalho, trazendo a lume, ao seu final, conclusões e recomendações quanto aos temas abordados / Abstract: The restructuring and privatization of the Brazilian electric sector started in 1995, has redefined the State¿s role within this sector that now starts to play the regulating and controlling functions instead of those of a contractor agent. With the non-intervention, the State has become the responsible for regulating, supervising and controlling the granted electric energy public services; keeping in mind that the strenghtening of the regulatory process begun with the founding of the Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica ¿ ANEEL, instituted by Law nº 9.427, 1996 december 26th. On the other hand, for the implementation of the electric energy infrastructure services, it is necessary the State¿s intervention on private properties. That is the way it happens in generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy. A country like Brazil with continental dimensions, makes the implementation of such services quite complex, because from the generation point to the great consumer markets there is the need of implementing huge transmission and distribution networks through many private properties which suffer the burden of public right of free passage over it, or in many other cases these properties are expropriated and whose destination is decided by the utilities, causing serious troubles to their rightful owners. Under this circumstances it is observed in this project that although the land owner does not lose the right over his property (for there is not a legal transfer from the owner to the utility when the public right of free passage to the transmission and distribution networks is aplicable), there is always the problem related to the restriction of the usage, fruition and enjoyment of this very property by the owner. When it comes to expropriation, there is the transfer of the owner's rights, makin the owner loses it's property to the State; the State is, in this case, represented by a company that was granted the rights or permission to exploit the service. For this to happen, it is due to the power in charge of granting this concession (as a preparatory measure), the issuing of declaratory actions aiming the expropriation or the institution of administrative servitude in the electric sector, as foreseen in the Law nº 8.987 (february 13th 1995) known as Leis de Concessão (Concessions Law), which determines the clauses of the concession¿s set of rules, and the granting of the rendering of public services, as stated by caput in art. 175 of the Federal Constitution. However, the restructuring and privatization of various segments, according to the Programa Nacional de Desestatização ¿ PND (National Program for Privatization), have brought some difficulties that were not taken into account when all the companies resposible for implementing the infrastructure belonged to the State. We may include in this context, the companies which rendered electric energy public services, and highways, in view of the controversies related to the transversal and longitudinal usage of the sovereignty zones belonging to the highways by transmission and distribution of electric energy companies, due to pecuniary charges for its usage, the so-called complementary or secondary income. This document besides aproaching the understanding of the involved utilities as well as the agencies ARTESP, CSPE, ANEEL, and ABCR, deals with a recently regulated issue, that is, the incorporation of private distribution networks, which do not have an authorization act from the granting power, to the net assets of the electric energy utilities, in view of the clause contained in the Law nº 10.848, march 15th 2004, which establishes regulations over the energy trade, offering other arrangements as well. These issues, among others, are detailed in this current document, showing at the end, conclusions and recommendations related to the topics discussed. / Doutorado / Doutor em Planejamento de Sistemas Energéticos

A presente pesquisa realiza uma análise crítica do uso e da apropriação de espaços públicos da cidade de São Paulo, com foco nas praças públicas, para através destas apreender como se dá o uso e a apropriação das mesmas, além de analisar a atual função do espaço público na metrópole de São Paulo do século XXI. Para alcançarmos este objetivo traçamos duas estratégias de pesquisa, a primeira baseada na discussão teórica dos dois conceitos-chave espaço público e praça pública, somada à retrospectiva histórica das ações dos órgãos públicos para a administração dos espaços públicos. A segunda estratégia de investigação científica foi a realização do estudo de caso de cinco praças distribuídas ao longo de um transepto, através das quais pudemos observar, analisar e compreender o uso e apropriação de praças públicas na cidade. Haja vista que o propósito da pesquisa é a análise das praças públicas da cidade de São Paulo, de grande dimensão territorial e de características socioeconômicas diversas e de realidades distintas no que tange a seus espaços públicos, buscamos praças localizadas em bairros e regiões distintas (bairros do centro expandido à periferia), buscando assim abarcar uma parte mais representativa da complexa realidade dos espaços públicos da metrópole de São Paulo. Ao final da análise crítica, propusemos algumas ações e medidas para a Política Pública Municipal de Gestão do espaço público, além de sugerirmos uma nova postura dos órgãos públicos municipais frente às questões relacionadas aos espaços públicos, buscando, principalmente, a sua valorização. / This research conducts a critical analysis of the use and ownership of public spaces in the city of São Paulo, with a focus on public squares. The main goal is to learn through this how the use and ownership of these squares take place, and to analyze the current role of public space in the metropolis of the twenty-first century. To achieve this goal we established two research strategies, the first theoretical discussion based on two key concepts of public space and public square, plus the historical review of the actions of public agencies for the administration of public spaces. The second strategy for scientific research was the use of five case studies of squares distributed along a transept, through which we can observe, analyze and understand the use and appropriation of public squares in the city. Considering that the purpose of research is the analysis of the public squares of the city of São Paulo, within large regional and socioeconomic characteristics of various and different realities with respect to its public spaces, we sought squares located in different regions and districts (districts expanded from the city center to the periphery), thus seeking to cover a more representative part of the complex reality of the public spaces of the metropolis of São Paulo. At the end of the review, we have proposed certain actions and measures for the Municipal Public Policy Management of public space, and suggesting a new position of municipal public agencies faced with the issues related to public spaces, seeking mainly the recovery of said places.

The regulation of lobbying is a current topic both at the level of international organizations as well as in many European and overseas countries. This work deals with the comparison of the rules on lobbying in selected English-speaking countries. Descriptive, doctrinal and comparative methods are used to analyze the main trends in the lobbying regulation of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as well as Australia. The text is structured into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the definition of lobbying and its differences from corrupt dealings; it also covers the types of lobbying activities and the various kinds of lobbyists. The second chapter attempts to contextualize lobbying into the theories of the decision-making process. A comparison of the similarities and differences of the lobbying rules is made and analyzed in the third and fourth chapters. Both the third and the fourth chapter have a similar structure -- first, the general rules and approaches to regulation are introduced, and then a comparison of selected English-speaking countries is made. The third chapter deals with the most common rules for lobbyists; the fourth chapter focuses on the relatively neglected side of lobbying contacts, i.e. the rules for the targets of lobbying (public office holders). In the end, some measures and recommendations for the Czech Republic are also outlined.

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