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During
the last three decades,
Government everywhere
has assumed a presence in our lives the
most socially sensitive of our society would not have imagined previously.
The increased impact on our lives has sometimes been gradual and modest,
sometimes sudden and dramatic. Thus, tax laws, however intrusive they may
be, have grown in number and complexity but the growth has been predictable even
if the content has not. On the other hand, anti-discrimination,
environmental protection and safety legislation has frequently been sudden and
even explosive, yielding, as it were, to long pent-up demands our demographic,
cultural and economic diversity had long been brewing. Both trends can in
part be traced to the wars this century and the last have witnessed, followed by several
cycles of hyperinflation, depression or recession, technical innovation, and the
steady pace of education and popularization. It has not seemed to matter
whether the government model was democratic and permissive, or autocratic and
repressive. In every country, the role of government has greatly increased in
scope and in depth, commanding the attention of an ever growing number of
societal groups, acting on motives ranging from economic to political or
religious. The groups themselves have been largely the agents of the
proliferation of measures of intervention by government in the lives of
everyone, reflecting the increased complexity of society's needs and
preferences.
Relations between
the governed and the government have not surprisingly become
more frequent, more detailed and more adversarial, and spawned a highly
varied and technical universe of conflicts between them. This in turn has
become the raison d'être of a whole host of highly specialized
professionals dedicated to helping others deal with,
navigate among, and resolving these
conflicts. Lobbyists, specialized lawyers and accountants, and other
experts in a myriad of disciplines have themselves become so enmeshed in the
technicalities of their knowledge that a second tier of middlemen has
developed, purporting to advise the ordinary individual. corporate, or
institutional citizen as to which kind and how many of such experts to hire.
This, in a
nutshell, is the field of Government
Relations, somewhat
amorphous in its diversity, and usually underestimated by most until they come
into contact with it. When they do, there occurs an epiphany of sorts, and
sometimes a helplessness, a discouragement, a loss of trust, and a resentment at
the gap existing between themselves and the members of that to which they
indiscriminately refer as the "Government
Establishment".
One of the
aims of the authors of this Website is to publish information about this
amorphous realm, and thereby help our audience better to discriminate among the
sources of information, the planners and the players in the group, and thereby
better to decide when self-help is advised, and when it is not, where to look to supplement their experience.
Contact the "G"
Group when you need
help in your Government
Relations.
DISCA sm
will, from time to
time, publish on this page articles of interest in the field of government
relations. You are invited to submit your proposed article for
publication on the
understanding that you agree that your submittal may be deemed to be your
representation that the material submitted may be published free of charge and
is not subject to any reservation of
rights you or anyone else may have under the laws of any country applicable to
intellectual property, and that you will hold us harmless from any claim based
on the violation of any such rights, if your article is selected for
publication.
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