Digitalisation, globalisation and credibility are shaping the work of interest representation. It has become more and more apparent that the term "public affairs" is very unspecific, misleading, and partly useless for the global discussion. In addition to the traditional term “lobbying”, the term "global governmental relations" is increasingly used to describe the work of interest representation in an international context, but also in Europe and Germany. Increasing complexity, internationalisation as well as the acceleration of information flows and decision-making require new methods of analysis, dialogue formats, refined instruments and strategy offers as well as resilient networks from political consultants. In addition, in many democratic systems we are experiencing an increasing loss of trust in politics and its decision-making processes. It is also in the responsibility of interest representation to counter this development. Against this background, we can identify four current trends in the discussion on "Global Governmental Relations".
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