LOBBIED
Central Hypothesis
“Lobbying is the stage where private preference becomes public law, so the finding is never the meeting; it is the clause that survives it and what that clause moves once in force.”
Nine active campaigns across France, Germany, and Chile now make the asks concrete: tax credits, market access, retirement rules, project deadlines, and health insurance support are requested, but the registers do not show whether lawmakers adopted them.
The EU and US examples show two visibility models: the EU register uses conditional access and lists more than 12,000 representatives, while US law requires quarterly client activity reports; both expose declared interests, not private negotiations or whether an ask wins.
Each tracked measure placed on its real legislative stage, because the value of an ask depends entirely on whether the text can still change.
For each measure still in play, the concrete consequence if it is adopted as currently drafted, written so it can be checked later and marked wrong. Distributional claims must name a party who pays or gains: "harms consumers" is unfalsifiable as written.
The chain from the named registrant back to the interests funding it, because trade bodies and coalitions are how a small number of payers present as a broad constituency.
Documented moves between regulating and lobbying, and the cooling-off rules that were either applied or waived.
Where influence is physically exercised, mapped from official meeting logs, audience records and consultation dockets rather than from claims about access.
Cases where the regulated interest shaped the instrument that governs it, scored on documented control over the text rather than on proximity.
Enforcement is uneven: the EU framework meets core international principles, UK registration can penalize unregistered consultant lobbying but excludes in-house and junior-official contacts, and Canada's new registry requires 14-day filing with penalties of $250 to $1M.
The closing card, and the highest evidentiary bar in the topic: the submitted text and the adopted text, both cited to official records. Where only correlation exists the row belongs in card 23.1 as a declared ask, not here as an outcome.
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