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Who has most access to the top? What 5 years of transport ministers’ diaries reveal

  • Written by Caroline Shaw, Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Otago
Who has most access to the top? What 5 years of transport ministers’ diaries revealHagen Hopkins/Getty Images

For interest groups and lobbyists, face-to-face time with political decision-makers is the most valuable kind of access there is.

As one New Zealand politician once put it (speaking anonymously to lobbying researchers), “politics is so much about relationships”. In-person meetings help build trust, develop...

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