Rola lobbingu w polskich stosunkach przemysłowych
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2011
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Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM
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The role of lobbying in industrial relations in Poland
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Lobbying is one of the strategies applied by groups of interest. Like any other strategy it is
to help achieve the goals that a particular group identifies and articulates. Paradoxically, the
greatest value and the strongest enemy of lobbying is its popularity. On one hand lobbying is
a series of activities that group elites willingly (e.g. in the U.S.) employ to achieve their interests.
On the other hand, though, referring to the notion of lobbying in various contexts, whether in PR, marketing or journalism, it raises numerous questions. The latter, i.e. the journalistic
context distorts it most severely. It is journalism that applies the name of lobbying to
mysterious, to put it mildly, and dubious interactions between the private and the political sectors,
thereby implying a rather derogatory ‘image’ of this instrument in public opinion, which
is especially the case in Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland.
However, lobbying is more than a handy tool to achieve particular, strictly business interests,
it is also an important route to implement social interests. It can be easily used by large
economic groups of interest, trade unions or business organizations, wrestling with the strong
third party of industrial relations, the state. By this token lobbying becomes a component of
industrial relations, and by no means is it a worse party, one that is less socially-oriented and
more like an ‘old boys’ network’, but a party which can efficiently contribute to a specified social
interest to be implemented in the labor market. In order to make it possible, though, appropriate
regulations, conditions, and factors of a legal, organizational and cultural nature need to
be developed. A profound change in this field does not seem feasible in Poland, which becomes
clear when reading the long-awaited law on lobbying currently in the legislative process.
Maybe we should not be very surprised, given that our industrial arena is highly
susceptible to hybrid and ephemeral solutions, and the issue of making appropriate use of lobbying
also leaves a margin for uncertainty and deformation.
Despite these concerns and limitations caused by industrial relations it is worth improving
and creating the proper environment for lobbying activity in Poland, which the authors of this
paper try to demonstrate.
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Przegląd Politologiczny, 2011, nr 4, s. 121-137.
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1426-8876