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  • ...ffairs]].<ref>Gerald Elliot 'Brief History: 1985-1995' in Kuenssberg, Nick and Lomas, Gillian. (eds) (1995) ''The David Hume Institute. The First Decade.' ==Origins and history==
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  • ...ying agencies until it filed for bankruptcy in September 2017 following an international scandal over revelations that it had orchestrated a PR campaign in South Af ..., 1983 and 1987 elections. Bell was deputy chairman of [[Lowe Howard-Spink and Bell]] alongside [[Frank Lowe]] before going on to found [[Chime Communicat
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  • ...r Britain’s aid programme, which until then had mainly involved economic development'. <ref> DFID [http://www.dfid.gov.uk/About-us/History/ The creation of DfID [[CDC]], formerly the Commonwealth Development Corporation, is the private equity arm of DfID.
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  • ...ith the development of policies in the areas of health, education, welfare and pensions policy reform<ref>Social Market Foundation, [http://www.guardian.c ...m the SMF include the suggestion that "the public should be forced to save for a pension unless they specifically opt out"<ref>Nick Mathiason, [http://www
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  • ...assets included the £2.3 billion Thorp plant, which processes used fuel, and the £490 million Sellafield Mox plant (SMP), built to recycle fuel. ...rship are decommissioned and cleaned up safely, securely, cost effectively and in ways that protect the environment." <ref>[http://www.nda.gov.uk/About_th
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  • ...of Energy & Climate Change]] and Chairman of the Governing Board of the [[International Energy Agency]] until his retirement in September 2009. He was also co-chair of the [[Energy Research Partnership]] and Head of the Energy Group at [[BERR]] in 2008.
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  • The British American Project for the Successor Generation Originally published in ''Lobster: parapolitics and state research journal''
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  • ...], despite the increasing role of the private sector in regulating markets and corporations. ...as well as on the regulatory role of non-state actors in standard-setting and implementation.
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  • ...In government, this refers to the summoning of civil servants by ministers for a policy meeting. But in the discreet world of lobbying, 'prayers' has an a ...m tame parliamentary gossip to detailed information about government plans for a specific industry.
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  • [[MPs for Hire]] (extract) Mark Hollingsworth, Bloomsbury, 1991 ...t no conflict arises, or appears to arise, between their private interests and their public duties.
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  • ...s. Since then Ditchley conferences have broadened to include the concerns and participation of nations all over the globe.<ref>[http://www.ditchley.co.uk Ditchley Governors are chosen by the Council of Management and constitute the Foundation’s governing body. Members serve five year term
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  • ...as entirely separate, [[Valerie Amos|Baroness Amos]] described Adam Smith International as "affiliated" but financially independent in 2004: :Adam Smith International Limited, which is the consultancy arm of the institute, is a separate organ
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  • ...]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well. Scottish Power has a number of divisions and subsidiaries:
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  • ...for England and Wales, and was chairman of the [[Water Industry Commission for Scotland]] (WICS) until 2011. He sits on the advisory council of the climat ...iberalisation, competition and privatisation. His links to policy networks and thinktanks that share similar beliefs were also of concern to those wishing
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  • ...Europe. In May 2008, GSL was bought by [[G4S]] (a merger of Group 4 Falck and Securicor). ...ntres, and an increasing quantity of other services, in Britain, Australia and South Africa.
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  • {{Template:Mining and Metals badge}} ...Office]]. She is a non-executive director of mining giant [[BHP Billiton]] and pharmaceutical giant [[AstraZeneca]].<ref>Astra Zeneca website. Friday, 17
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  • ...onal (Petroleum Engineering Services), a subsurface oil and gas production and well technology company. Their turnover in 1997-8 was £22.6 million. ...in the North Sea before 1997, after the election they changed their minds and in July 1999 they actually cut tax by extending Capital Gains Tax Rollover
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  • ...nions, who once generated 90% of the Party's income, now provide only 30% (and only 3 high-value donations in 1998-9). ...was supposed to be the 'Party of the working class' is funded by the rich and packed out with businessmen.
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  • ==Privatisation and Public Private 'Pay-offs'== ...artnerships (PPP), both as an FM (facilities management) services provider and as an equity investor." Sodexho UK website58
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  • ...privatisation programs. The USCSI acts as the access point to trade policy for US services corporations<ref>Darren Puscas (2003) [http://www.polarisinstit The industry's largest association which represents over 400 national and international companies<ref>American Petroleum Institute [http://api-ec.api.org/aboutapi/
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  • ...anent Secretary to the Treasury. According to ''Who's Who'', Monck is an 'international consultant'. ...with IMF conditions that forced the Labour government to adopt budget cuts and pay restrictions that caused the famous 'winter of discontent'. Roy Hatters
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  • {{Template:Mining and Metals badge}} ...society to ensure the transparency of payments by companies to government and of revenues received by those governments, to encourage accountability.
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  • ...ticle is part of a series on [[Exxon Mobil|ExxonMobil] - see the main page for more. Exxon Mobil Corporation is the parent of [[Esso]], [[Mobil]] and [[ExxonMobil]] companies around the world.
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  • '''Pearson''' is the world’s biggest educational company and a strong advocate of market-driven education reform. ...ts and services to governments, such as testing services and examinations, and the management of education data.
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  • ...that want to help councils create wealth and jobs."<ref>CBI CHIEF SAYS NEW DEVELOPMENT TAX UNDERMINES WELCOME PLANNING OVERHAUL, CBI News Release, 15 March 2002, ...e of business information and by taking a leading role in policy formation for the sector.<ref>'Welcome to BSA', BSA website: http://www.epolitix.com/data
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  • ...work, as well as provides services to other telecoms providers, companies, and public sector organizations. <ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/resear ...//uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKWNA387120080605 'Moody's cuts Scottish and Southern Energy'] Reuters, 5 June 2008, accessed Nov 2008</ref>
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  • ...ng "industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to enhance value for their clients". ...redit-crunch-auditing Called to account], Guardian, 14 December 2008</ref> and 99 per cent of the FTSE 100 on the London Stock Exchange. <ref> Prem Sikka,
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  • ...eaching fellow of the [[London School of Economics]] and Political Science and director of the consultancy [[Agora Projects Ltd]]. ...Europe]] campaign, and a member of the advisory committee of the [[Centre for European Reform]].<ref>"[http://www.apcoworldwide.com/uk/content/keystaff/m
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  • ...Scotland, [http://www.talentscotland.com/jobs.aspx?item_id=57813 Insurance and Pensions in Scotland], accessed 28 April 2009.</ref> ...d Life Assurance Company in 1832. Subsequently, agencies emerged in Canada and in Ireland with the first London Office opening in 1842.
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  • ...use in 2005 with speeches by [[Bill Emmott]], Editor of the [[Economist]], and [[Alan Beattie]], World Trade Editor of the [[Financial Times]]'. ...Commission's Berlaymont headquarters, it works by researching, developing and promoting practical policy options that recognise political realities.
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  • ...and waste management and treatment as well as construction, communications and the management of technical facilities" <ref> Suez 2007 Reference Document "At December 31, 2007, with revenues of 12.0 billion euros and 61,915 employees, the Group conducts its
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  • ...was only made available to countries if they acknowledged the IMf's policy and implemented certain structural adjustent programs. [1] ...ests date back to 1985. Despite these protests, institutions ignored them, and mainstream media rarely give them due covergage, despite the fact that many
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  • ...y out contracts for 10 Downing Street, the Governor of the Bank of England and his Executive Team, [[Scottish Government]], [[QinetiQ]], [[Home Office]], ...]] in 2002, and joined DERA's successor organisation the [[Defence Science and Technology Laboratory]] (DSTL). At the same time, Mils was seconded to the
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  • ...tion]] based in Belgium, the [[German Marshall Fund of the United States]] and the [[Charles Steward Mott Foundation]] set up by [[General Motors]] indust ...a and Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and will issue a report in Spring 2005.<ref>http://www.gmfus.org/template/page.
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  • '''Centrica''' plc is an international top 30 FTSE100 company which split from [[British Gas]] following a demerge ...nates 45 per cent of the total gas market in the UK (16 million customers) and in 2009 bought out the North Sea gas producer [[Venture]].
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  • ...alogue and policy development between European governments and politicians and their opposite numbers in the Russian Federation'<ref>REGISTER OF LORDS' IN ...sident of the [[Austrian Textile Industry]]; former Director of [[Androsch International Consulting]]/Warsaw.
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  • ...responsible for development of the national Energy Strategy, privatisation and structural reforms within the Russian energy sector.<ref>[http://www.eu-rus ...rts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=350&prog=zru Carnegie Endowment for International Peace], Vladimir Milov, accessed 20 January 2009.</ref>:
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  • ...lications of the [[David Hume Institute]] is compiled from the DHI website and other published sources (as noted in the references). Governments and Small Business by Graham Bannock and Alan Peacock, Paul Chapman, London, 1989.
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  • ...rd Life Assurance Company in 1832. Subsequently Agencies opened in Canada and in Ireland with the first London Office in 1842. ...ails of Standard Life's connection to the expansion of the British Empire, for instance the 1845 formation of the Colonial Life Assurance Company was “t
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  • ...ion of right-wing ideologues now at the top of the [[Conservative Party]], and sometimes described as the [[Notting Hill set]].<ref>[http://www.telegraph. ...l Intelligence [http://www.editorialintelligence.com/advisors.htm Advisors and Contributing Editors] accessed 4 March 2008</ref>
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  • ...f Wallasey of Leigh-on-Sea''' (born 29 April 1942) is a British politician and businesswoman particularly involved in corporate investments in Africa. ...ecame a member of the [[Royal Institute for International Affairs]] (RIIA) and later joined the [[Ditchley Foundation]].
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  • ...on by [[Capita]] Group Plc. At the time, the business ran over 150 courses and trained over 50,000 people a year.<ref>"[http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/ne ...ys he has tried to move the Society from its role as an organisation known for its training activities (1970s-1990s), towards becoming an organisation tha
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  • ...kholm Network Annual Report 2006/2007], The Stockholm Network, p. 13</ref> and 2007-8<ref>[http://issuu.com/stockholmnetwork/docs/sn_ar_singles The Stockh In a March 2009 presentation [[Tim Montgomerie]] and [[Matthew Elliott]] described ASI as part of the infrastructure of the [[Mo
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  • ...lthough this would be very hard to argue, as it promotes political writing and personalities. It is named after the late Labour leader [[John Smith]], tho ...nchers, special advisers, civil servants, business and industrial leaders, and specialists.<ref>"[http://www.smith-institute.org.uk/mode-of.htm What is th
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  • ...becoming a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, of Islay in Argyll and Bute. ...ament for the Labour Party, Robertson was Minister of Defence between 1997 and 1999 before being nominated by [[Tony Blair]] to become NATO secretary Gene
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  • ...27) is the world's leading academic journal on the role of intelligence in international relations."<ref>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02684527.asp</ref> ...f intelligence services as instruments of state control in both historical and contemporary contexts. All articles are subjected to a rigorous peer-revie
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  • The '''International Monetary Fund''' (IMF) is an organisation that was created with the princip ...veillance, involving the monitoring of economic and financial developments and the provision of policy advice, aimed at crisis prevention.
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  • ...ong its members. The secretariat of the group is hosted by [[Transparency International]]. ...quires the establishment and sustained functioning of local, national and international cross-sector coalitions made up of all stakeholders.”<ref>Water Integrity
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  • ...its operations are “helping to eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable development by facilitating private involvement in infrastructure.”<ref> Public-Priva ...ricing, restructuring and regulation of public sectors, corporate finance, development of consumer rights institutions.<ref>Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory
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  • Professor Colin Robinson is an economist based at the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey. According to his [http://www.econ ...ion for Energy Economics]] its "Outstanding Contribution to the Profession and its Literature" award".
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  • ...e world's most powerful corporations, as well as governments, institutions and philanthropic foundations. ...ing: technology, corporate finance, marketing and sales, operations, risk, and strategy.
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  • {{Template:Mining and Metals badge}} ...ns] Accessed 22/04/10</ref><ref>Building partnership for development water and sanitation website [http://www.bpdws.org/web/w/www_162_en.aspx What is BPD?
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  • ...ing business, in 1985. He has over twenty-five years of senior management and private equity investing experience.<ref>[http://dublin.usembassy.gov/index ...the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award in June, 2004 for his service in Iraq.<ref>[http://dublin.usembassy.gov/index/embassy-news/am
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  • {{Template:Mining and Metals badge}} ...how to avoid the 'resource curse'. He is also a sceptic of organic farming and is pro genetically modified foods.
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  • {{Template:Schools badge}}'''Ark''', formerly known as '''Absolute Return for Kids''' is a charity set up by a group of hedge fund managers in 2002. ...o receive funding from private donors. Ark also provides teacher training and school leadership programmes.
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  • ...cations and given 2 civil service deputies who now handle lobby briefings, and [[Sally Morgan]] has been made Director of Government Relations.
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  • ...pment programmes before they start, train practitioners before deployment, and undertake activities themselves. ==Goals and Objectives==
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  • ...ank industry became a means by which the political class outsourced policy and built a new anti-democratic way of consolidating the new consensus which em ...towards the corporatisation of politics and the ultimate outsourcing: the privatisation of policy making. <ref> Gerry Hassan [http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/
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  • (B) 51.502486, -0.125318, Department of Health ...ceutical Industry]] is the UK pharmaceutical industry's main industry body and lobby group. Members include seventy five companies in the UK producing pre
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  • ...ceutical Industry]] is the UK pharmaceutical industry's main industry body and lobby group. Members include seventy five companies in the UK producing pre 51.497148, -0.145375, International Federation of Health Plans
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  • ...security company that describes itself as specialising in risk consultancy and project management. <ref> Minimal Risk [http://www.minimalrisk.co.uk/defaul ...stan-115875-23047740/ Mercenaries hired to gather intelligence in creeping privatisation of the war in Afghanistan], ''Daily Mirror'', 9 April 2011 </ref>
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  • ...history of debates on [[Lobbying]] regulation, in Scotland, the UK, the EU and the US. ...ghlighting the lobbying ‘clout’ of consultancies such as [[Brunswick]] and [[Finsbury]], the report also outlines tactics employed by industry bodies
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  • {{Template:Mining and Metals badge}}{{Template: EU Revolving Door badge}} ...Study of Globalization]] at Yale University and director of [[Citigroup]] and [[Alcoa]].
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  • ...history of debates on [[Lobbying]] regulation, in Scotland, the UK, the EU and the US. ...ation of lobbyists' including posing the two alternatives thought to be up for discussion:
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  • ...ers Program), or '''GELP''' is a group of education reformers operating in and across countries, with a particular focus on pushing the digitisation of le ...e world through technology (see [[Cisco]] profile for more of its lobbying for education reform).
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  • ...s delivering low-cost private schooling. It operates across Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda with plans to expand into other countries, such as India. ...tion of schooling, which increases inequality, provides no learning gains, and de-professionalises teachers.
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