{"id":6476,"date":"2010-07-28T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2011-01-19T16:39:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:39:31","slug":"lobbying-the-financial-reform-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/28\/lobbying-the-financial-reform-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying the financial reform act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6477\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/lobbyist-on-Capitol-steps-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"lobbyist on Capitol steps\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>Intense <a title=\"lobbying\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/28\/business\/28lobby.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">lobbying<\/a> is under way over the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform act, with federal agencies needing to fill in the details of at least 243 financial rules and conduct 67 studies before implementing the most sweeping such law since the 1930s.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"Business and Politics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Business-Politics-Comparative-Introduction-3rd\/dp\/1889119881\" target=\"_blank\">Business and Politics<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; says citizens should be concerned that the interest-group system is massively biased towards representing business interests.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe regulations that give shape to laws are always crucial.\u00a0 In this case, the massive complexity and detail involved makes the regulations all the more important &#8212; and in this process the voices for consumer and taxpayer interests will be few in number compared with those for the financial industry.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intense lobbying is under way over the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform act, with federal agencies needing to fill in the details of at least 243 financial rules and conduct 67 studies before implementing the most sweeping such law since the 1930s.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of &#8220;Business and Politics,&#8221; says citizens should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2890,2484,577,1286,3414,561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/7632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}