FOREWORD

PREFACE: A Function under Pressure?

1. THE CHALLENGE
   1. The European Transparency Initiative
   Commissioner
   2. The Citizens' Right to Know About EU Lobbying
   3. Transparency in EU Decision Making, Holding
   Corporations to Account: Why the ETI Needs
   Mandatory Lobbying Disclosure
   
   
2. ABRAMOFF AND THE AMERICAN COMPARISON
   1. No Trenchcoats Here
   2. Lobbying Reform: Failure on Two Continents
   3. Transparency in Public Affairs: Lessons from the
   Mixed Experience in the United States
   4. US Style Rules for Lobbying: Crossing the
   Atlantic?
   5. You Can't Legislate Personal Responsibility
   
   
3. THE RESPONSE
   1. The Public Affairs of Public Affairs
   2. The Response of Public Affairs Practitioners
   3. What the Edelman Trust Survey Tells Us
   4. Lobbying and Public Trust
   5. Perception and Reality: The EU Transparency
   Challenge
   6. The State of Central European Public Affairs in
   Brussels
   7. The Devil and Commissioner Kallas
   
   
4. POLITICS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
   1. The Public Affairs of Non & The People's Pause
   2. Europe's Autumn?
   3. Happy Christmas?
   4. Privacy and Transparency: The Race to the
   Bottom
   5. The Politics of Party Funding
   
   
5. AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES
   1. Competitiveness and the Environment:
   Celebrating the Gotelis Process
   2. Change and Climate Change?
   3. Unsolicited Advice to the Democrats
   4. Digital Democracy in America: A Progress
   Report
   5. A Watershed Year in Gay Politics?
   
   
6. AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES