1st Edition
Interest Group Organisation in the European Union How Internal Organisational Structures Shape Interest Group Agency
By Michelle Hollman
Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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The investigation of the internal workings of interest groups opens the view on the behavioural dynamics within these organisations. By analysing their intraorganisational structures, this book explains how groups prepare to become active in the European Union and why we observe contact, conflict and cooperation of interest groups and other political actors in the European arena. The book... Read more
1. An Introduction to the Private Life of Groups 2. To Have or not to Have a European Affairs Department? 3. To Include or not to Include Members in Decision-Making? 4. Research Design, Case Selection, Methods and Data Collection 5. Coordinating European Affairs Activity Internally: The Empirical Analysis of Groups’ Horizontal Organisation 6. Reaching an Organisational Decision in European Affairs: The Empirical Analysis of Groups’ Vertical Organisation 7. Four Organisational Types 8. Conclusion
Biography
Michelle Hollman is a researcher at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences of the University of Bremen, Germany.
