1st Edition

Legislative Lobbying in Context The Policy and Polity Determinants of Interest Group Politics in the European Union

Edited By Jan Beyers, Caelesta Braun, Heike Klüver Copyright 2016
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

The lack of previous research into political interest groups and taking into account policy-specific and institutional context characteristics is largely due to research designs that have been primarily focused on a small number of policy debates, with the result that contextual characteristics were largely held constant. This book brings together articles from different modules that are part of... Read more

1. Legislative lobbying in context: towards a conceptual framework of interest group lobbying in the European Union Heike Klüver, Caelesta Braun and Jan Beyers

2. Interest organizations across economic sectors: explaining interest group density in the European Union Joost Berkhout, Brendan J. Carroll, Caelesta Braun, Adam W. Chalmers, Tine Destrooper, David Lowery, Simon Otjes and Anne Rasmussen

3. Framing in context: how interest groups employ framing to lobby the European Commission Heike Klüver, Christine Mahoney and Marc Opper

4. ‘Try to see it my way!’ Frame congruence between lobbyists and European Commission officials Frida Boräng and Daniel Naurin

5. Institutions, policies, and arguments: context and strategy in EU policy framing Rainer Eising, Daniel Rasch and Patrycja Rozbicka

6. The alignment of parties and interest groups in EU legislative politics. A tale of two different worlds? Jan Beyers, Iskander De Bruycker and Inger Baller

7. Comparing the domestic and the EU lobbying context: perceived agenda-setting influence in the multi-level system of the European Union Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz and Anne Rasmussen

8. Information or context: what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists? Patrick Bernhagen, Andreas Dür and David Marshall

Biography

Jan Beyers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Caelesta Braun is Assistant Professor in the School of Governance at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Heike Klüver is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.