@inproceedings{3b69d0fff3d14017ba3f656febbce08d,
title = "Mapping organizations{\textquoteright} goals and leanings in the Lobbyist network in banking and finance",
abstract = "We address the question of how can publicly accessible information be used to make a map of the political actors and their leanings, that would benefit both policy makers and stakeholders in the European Commission{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteleft}Better regulation agenda{\textquoteright} and contribute to social stability. We explore this possibility by using data from the Transparency Register and the open public consultations of the European Commission in the area of Banking and Finance. We compare lobbying organizations active in this area according to three criteria: (i) their formal categorization in the Transparency Register, (ii) their self-declared goals and activities, and (iii) their leanings towards policy issues as derived from their responses to public consultations. We combine methods from information retrieval, text mining, and network analysis to obtain insights on the policy arena. We find that constructing a similarity network based on preference patterns adds a crucial dimension in the understanding of how lobby organizations engage in the policy making process.",
author = "Borut Sluban and Jasmina Smailovi{\'c} and Novak, {Petra Kralj} and Igor Mozeti{\v c} and Stefano Battiston",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2018.; 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Complex Networks 2017 ; Conference date: 29-11-2017 Through 01-12-2017",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-72150-7_93",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319721491",
series = "Studies in Computational Intelligence",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "1149--1161",
editor = "Hocine Cherifi and Chantal Cherifi and Mirco Musolesi and M{\'a}rton Karsai",
booktitle = "Complex Networks and Their Applications VI - Proceedings of Complex Networks 2017 (The 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications)",
}