LOBBYS Y GRUPOS DE PRESION

In: Revista de estudios políticos, Band 89, S. 19-40

Abstract

Industrial & commercial development, the increasing intervention of the State, the great econ crisis have provoked the creation of groups in defense of soc, econ & intellectual interests, which seek to influence PO & officials to get changes in legislation & institutions. These groups have very diff characters according to the soc strata they represent. They are more effective the richer they are; this inequality in the means of the protection of interests constitutes the primary disadvantage of the system of pressure groups. Another disadvantage consists in the fact that the totality of the special interests is not to be identified with the general interest. Financiers, economists, officials, & men of sci who stand for the general interest are made suspect in the eyes of the public by the propaganda of those who denounce them as dangerous technocrats. It is not a question of suppressing these pressure groups. But the public should be enligbtened about their activities, & their propaganda should be combatted by the dissemination of technical information. It is also possible that their resources should be made public, or at least their expenses. Tr & Modified from IPSA.