Abstract
High level of distrust in political elites accompanied with strong perception of corruption not only led to widely discussed success of new political parties and movements in the Czech party system, but also to increase of several anti-corruption non-governmental organizations' (NGO's) activities. To increase their efficiency about 20 organizations has created open coalition and established project called Reconstruction of the State (Rekonstrukce státu).
This project is oriented to adopt 9 anti-corruption legislative proposals. Suggested paper aims to analyse how the project operates in its formal and informal aspects, which communication means are preferred to affect public opinion and how the lobbyists interact with the politicians and political parties.
The analytical framework is derived from the contingency theory of lobbying which emphasizes complex nature of interactions among different actors, namely legislators, lobbyists, mass media, citizens and potential competitors. As the case study aims to bring comprehensive explanation of these interactions, the data were collected from several sources.
Apart from the analysis of publicly accessible pieces of information from project's web presentation and official printed materials, the semi-structured interviews with activists and field research were performed. In addition to that the data on funding, visual style and social network communication were collected.
Among other conclusions it can be seen that Reconstruction of the State has been largely successful in the terms of agenda setting, but in the context of legislative process it has to face many obstacles either from legislators themselves or competitors with different goals.