1st Edition
Interest Group Politics in Europe Lessons from EU Studies and Comparative Politics
Concepts and Themes 1. Researching Interest Group Politics in Europe and Elsewhere: Much We Study, Little We Know? Jan Beyers, Rainer Eising and William Maloney Institutions and Interest Groups 2. Opportunity Structures in the EU Multi-Level System Sebastiaan Princen and Bart Kerremans 3. ‘Enlargement Waves’ and Interest Group Participation in the EU Policy-Making System: Establishing a Framework of Analysis Spyros Blavoukos and George Pagoulatos Logics, Patterns and Power 4. Clientelism, Committees, Pluralism and Protests in the European Union: Matching Patterns? Rainer Eising 5. Policy Issues, Organisational Format and the Political Strategies of Interest Organisations Jan Beyers 6. Interest Groups in the European Union: How Powerful Are They? Andreas Dür Comparative and Normative Perspectives 7. The European Interest System in Comparative Perspective: A Bridge Too Far? David Lowery, Caelesta Poppelaars and Joost Berkhout 8. Converging Perspectives on Interest Group Research in Europe and America Christine Mahoney and Frank Baumgartner 9. Interest Groups and Democracy in the European Union Sabine Saurugger 10. Conclusion: Embedding Interest Group Research Jan Beyers, Rainer Eising and William Maloney
Biography
Jan Beyers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Rainer Eising is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
William A. Maloney is Professor of Politics at the University of Newcastle, UK.
