Mapping organizations’ goals and leanings in the Lobbyist network in banking and finance

Borut Sluban, Jasmina Smailović, Petra Kralj Novak, Igor Mozetič, Stefano Battiston

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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’s ‘Better regulation agenda’ 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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComplex Networks and Their Applications VI - Proceedings of Complex Networks 2017 (The 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications)
EditorsHocine Cherifi, Chantal Cherifi, Mirco Musolesi, Márton Karsai
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1149-1161
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319721491
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Complex Networks 2017 - Lyon, France
Duration: 29 Nov 20171 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameStudies in Computational Intelligence
Volume689
ISSN (Print)1860-949X

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Complex Networks 2017
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period29/11/171/12/17

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