Geopolítica del lobbyinghacia la privatización de la decisión política

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to define some of the changes that are taking place in the activity of interest group influence on public authorities (lobbying), a phenomenon that, throughout this work, we have called 'Geopolitics of lobbying'. This dynamic process involves external factors -linked to political, economic, and social transformations-,which make interest groups move from a scenario focused on the management of influence on politics - direct lobbying or 'insider lobbying' - to a scenario focused on the management of social consent to influence politics - indirect lobbying or 'outsider lobbying'. From a scenario where the nation-state has the monopoly on political decision-making to a scenario of progressive weakening of the nation-state, which is taken advantage of by interest groups, in the form of corporations, which occupy (by privatizing it) the debate and public space ceded, by action or omission, by the state, thus giving way to a double surrender of the nation-state to interest groups (corporations) and of the individual who cedes his or her status as a 'citizen' in favor of that of a 'client'. We are thus talking about a new sociology of the state in which there is a phenomenon of privatization of debate, public space and political decision-makingin favor of large corporations (markets)...