Lobbying in the United Kingdom
Formal procedures enable individual members of the public to lobby their Member of Parliament but most lobbying activity centres on corporate, charity and trade association lobbying, where organisations seek to amend government policy through advocacy. Companies and individuals who operate in this sector commonly use the terms "public relations", "public affairs", "political consultancy" or "corporate affairs" to describe their activities (though this was also a reaction to the negative publicity surrounding the word "lobbyists" following the 1994 Cash-for-questions affair). Professional public affairs agencies, representing multiple clients, undertake a significant proportion of lobbying activity in addition to individual organisations conducting lobbying on an in-house basis.
Public Administration (journal)
Public Administration is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which covers research, theory, and practice in public administration, public policy, public organization theory, and public management. It was established in 1923 and was ranked in the top of its field by a 1983 survey. One of its founders was the Liberal and later Labour statesman Richard Haldane (1st Viscount of Haldane), and the journal awards an annual prize in his honour to the most distinguished practitioner essay published in "Public Administration" in that year. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is edited by Martin Lodge. From 1983-2011, the journal was edited by R. A. W. Rhodes. "Public Administration" is indexed by Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.87, ranking it 17th out of 169 journals in the category "Political Science" and 9th out of 47 journals in the category "Public Administration".