LOBBY REGULATION IN BRAZIL: TRANSPARENCY OR MAINTENANCE OF THE STATUS QUO?

The lobbying strategy, characterized by the complex process of defending interests before the public authorities, is part of the exercise of Corporate Political Activity (CPA). Since 1984, unsuccessful attempts at lobby regulation have been observed in Brazil. With this, the environment in which relationships take place becomes less transparent and sensitive in the ethical, political and business spheres. Thus, the objective of this paper is to understand, in the light of the theoretical-methodological perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis, how the discourses contained in the current proposals for lobby regulation participate, in a dialectical way, in the social changes desired by their proponents. As the main results of the discussion, we highlight that not regulating lobbying is a problem, since the status quo is maintained. And regulating, as proposed, will bring new problems, as the status quo of domination by the political-business elite remains, to the detriment of society, however, under a new guise, the lack of transparency in the public-private relationship masquerading as regulation.

Keywords:
Regulation; Lobby; Brazil; Critical Discourse Analysis