[governance] Facebook spent $4 million to lobby U.S. lawmakers in 2012

[Roland Perry]

In message <51034FAC.4040605 at ITforChange.net>, at 10:38:20 on Sat, 26 
Jan 2013, =?UTF-8?B?R3VydSDgpJfgpYHgpLDgpYE=?= <Guru at ITforChange.net> 
writes
>then can you explain what you mean by 'different forms of democracy' in 
>which the lobbying power of money varies across countries

The extent to which money can be used to influence politicians varies in 
different countries. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance 
for an introduction to how private money is allowed to influence 
election campaigns in different countries, for example.
-- 
Roland Perry

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