Lobbying in the European Union
Interest Groups, Lobbying Coalitions, and Policy Change
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199657445
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 241x163x23 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Thousands of lobbyists lobby decision-makers in Brussels every day, but little is known about their impact on policy. Lobbying in the European Union addresses this research gap and analyzes the conditions under which interest groups can successfully lobby the European institutions.
MoreLong description:
Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining interest group influence. Understanding lobbying success should be of particular concern to scholars of European politics since the European Union constitutes a promising political opportunity structure for organized interests. This book sheds light on the impact of interest groups on European policy-making and makes a major contribution to the study of both European Union politics and interest groups more generally. Kl--ver develops a comprehensive theoretical model for understanding lobbying success and presents an extensive empirical analysis of interest group influence on policy-making in the EU. The book relies on a large, new, and innovative dataset that combines a wide variety of data sources including a quantitative text analysis of European Commission consultations, an online survey of interest groups, information gathered on interest group websites, and legislative data retrieved from EU databases. This book analyzes interest group influence across 56 policy issues and 2,696 interest groups and shows that lobbying is an exchange relationship in which the European institutions trade influence for information, citizen support and economic power. Importantly, this book demonstrates that it is not sufficient to solely focus on individual interest groups, but that it is crucial how interest groups come together in issue-specific lobbying coalitions. Lobbying is a collective enterprise in which information supply, citizen support, and economic power of entire lobbying coalitions are decisive for lobbying success.
Kl--ver sets a new standard methodologically by using state-of-the-art computer-assisted content analysis techniques to map the effect of interventions by interest groups on policy proposals in the European Union. Moving beyond previous approaches, she is able to ask familiar questions (can interest groups affect the policy process, and under what conditions?) but to answer them on a much larger scale because she makes use of large stores of documentary evidence to assess change in European Commission regulations from their initial proposal through the policy process to final formulation. She can then statistically assess which groups see the proposals move more in the direction they prefer. The work is therefore a tour-de-force of research methodology, setting new ground that future scholars will not be able to ignore.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Lobbying in Coalitions
How to Measure Interest Group Influence
Mapping European Union lobbying
Policy Debates, Interest Groups, and the Structure of Conflict
The Policy Formulation Stage: Interest Groups and the European Commission
The Decision-Making Stage: Bringing the Council and the European Parliament in
Conclusions and Implications: Interest Groups, European Politics, and Democracy
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Association Questionnaire
Appendix 2: Company Questionnaire
