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In politics, a revolving door can refer to two distinct phenomena. Primarily, it denotes a situation wherein personnel move between roles as legislators or regulators in the public sector, and as employees or lobbyists of industries (affected by state legislation and regulations) in the private sector.
Revolving door or Revolving door syndrome may also refer to: Look up revolving door or revolving door syndrome in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Revolving door (politics) , the cycling of employees between an industry and government agencies that influence that industry, notably the U.S. Congress
The revolving door also feeds employees from the private sector to the SEC, employees that former SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said "tend to be vigorous defenders of the public interest."
A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a central shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a cylindrical enclosure. To use a revolving door, a person enters the enclosure between two of the doors and then moves continuously to the desired exit while keeping pace with the doors.
In lobbying, the revolving door is the cycling of former federal employees into jobs as lobbyists while former K Street employees are pulled into government positions. [30] Government officials can only work certain terms in their positions, for example senators , and afterwards they form valuable connections that could help influence future ...
Washington’s revolving door kept spinning this week as the Drug Enforcement Administration’s recently departed second-in-command returned for a new stint with the high-powered consulting firm ...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s second-in-command has quietly stepped down amid reporting by The Associated Press that he once consulted for a pharmaceutical distributor sanctioned ...
The revolving door effect is a term to describe the situation in which, while political prisoners are released, new imprisonments take place at the same time or within a few days, so that the number of political prisoners remains constant.