O lobby no Brasil e nos EUA: uma análise comparativa entre as propostas brasileiras e a legislação americana

Abstract

For over two decades has been an extensive debate on the regulation of Lobby in Brazil, including the presentation of several bills in Congress, however, no proposal was approved. The regulation of the activity is not only the untying of corrupt practices and influence peddling with the Lobby, as well as the advertising relationship between lobbyists and decision makers. In the search for understanding the stagnation of the proposed bills and evidence the existence of flaws in the preparation of such, this paper aims to present a comparative analysis of the proposals of the Lobby regulation in Brazil and the legislation in force in the United States of America (USA). Therefore, through a qualitative approach and exploratory research aims to study the Lobby in its origin and definition, emphasizing the importance of interest groups and pressure in their training. In addition, it presents a historical review of the practice in Brazil and the USA, as well as the demarcation between the Lobby and Corruption, based on a literature review. After analyzing the collected data, it was found that the Brazilian proposals compared to US law present an intermediate regulation, ie they are compatible, however, have gaps in some important aspects that must be improved so that there is a proposal in Brazil abridging all Lobby performance limits, causing its practice remains an essential tool for democracy in a country.