Odintsova O. Legal regulation of lobbying in the modern Ukraine (general theo retical research)

Dissertation is dedicated to scientific substantiation of need in legal regulation of lobbying under new developing democratic conditions of social, political and state life of Ukraine. The result of conducted research is perfection of conceptual apparatus in the field of lobbying and determination of purposes of legal regulation of lobbying under contemporary conditions of Ukraine’s devel-opment. In the dissertation there were revealed inherent lobbying purposes, functions, forms, methods, subjects and objects, along with its positive and negative displays. Practice of lobbying regulation in foreign countries was ana-lyzed, perspectives of legal regulation of lobbying in Ukraine were revealed. Necessity of developing of integrated legal mechanism for legalization of insti-tute of lobbying in Ukraine together with measures for minimizing its negative features was proven. The basic theses needed for legal regulation of lobbying were worked out and professional codex for lobbyist that defined basic waysof behavior for person who carries out one’s professional charges was proposed.