Legal Regulation of Lobbying and Other Mechanisms to Promote of Private Interests

Lobbying is one of the most effective instruments of public influence on the activities of state structures in most developed countries. In this regard, the issue of regulating lobbying in Russia periodically comes to the agenda of the legislative activities of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. In the scientific literature, there are many approaches to understanding lobbying. On the one hand, researchers view lobbying as a positive phenomenon, attaching great importance to social relations emerging in the process of lobbying. In particular, there is an opinion that the legislative consolidation of lobbying activities contributes to counteracting corruption in the adoption of government decisions. In addition, the regulated activities of lobbyists create additional channels of influence on lawmaking for the interest groups in relation to the system of representative democracy. On the other hand, there are opponents of this approach, which argue that corruption, on the contrary, is the main mechanism for the successful promotion of private interests. The work consists of an introduction, three chapters combining eight paragraphs, conclusions and a list of used literature. In the first chapter the concept and essence of the category "interest" in law is disclosed, ways of promoting private interest are discussed as well as the mechanism for promoting private interests. The second chapter examines the foreign experience in regulating lobbying activities, defines the phenomenon of lobbyism, examines the main approaches to the definition of lobbying. The third chapter examines the forms of lobbying including various classifications of such forms and also details the forms of lobbying in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.