Platform lobbying: Policy influence strategies and the EU's Digital Services Act

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dc.contributor.authorGorwa, Robert
dc.contributor.authorLechowski, Grzegorz
dc.contributor.authorSchneiß, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-13T12:32:32Z
dc.date.available2025-01-13T12:32:32Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how platform companies seek to lobby and otherwise influence policymakers during heated regulatory episodes. While there has been some valuable recent work on different policy influence strategies deployed by platform firms, in particular the emerging use of “user-facing” tactics of consumer mobilisation, current research tends to neglect the role of specific institutional contexts and related power structures intermediating the exertion of business power. Developing an institutionally situated approach, we offer an analysis of platform policy influence during the Digital Services Act (DSA) negotiations in the EU from 2019-2022. Through an analysis of political science literature on business power and interest group politics, we outline five strategies of corporate policy influence (access lobbying, coalition building, stakeholder mobilisation, public relations, and funding). Drawing on freedom of information requests, the EU Transparency register, and civil society watchdog reporting, we then provide an analysis of how platform firms sought to influence EU policymakers through these strategies around the DSA.
dc.identifier.citationGorwa, R., Lechowski, G., & Schneiß, D. (2024). Platform lobbying: Policy influence strategies and the EU’s Digital Services Act. Internet Policy Review, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.14763/2024.2.1782
dc.identifier.doi10.14763/2024.2.1782
dc.identifier.issn2197-6775
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/778
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/deed.en
dc.subjectPlatform poweren
dc.subjectLobbyingen
dc.subjectBusiness poweren
dc.subjectPolicy influenceen
dc.subjectPlatform governanceen
dc.titlePlatform lobbying: Policy influence strategies and the EU's Digital Services Act
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.14763/2024.2.1782
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local.researchtopicOrganisation von Wissen
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