National interest organisations in EU policy-making

Rainer Eising*, Daniel Rasch, Patrycja Rozbicka

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Abstract

Comparative and EU interest group studies are marked by a progression towards theory-driven, large-N empirical studies in the past 20 years. With the study of national interest organisations in EU policy-making, this special issue puts centre stage a theoretically and empirically neglected topic in this research field. The individual contributions include interest group characteristics, institutional contexts as well as issue contexts as explanatory factors in their empirical analyses of multilevel interest representation. They present novel developments in the study of political alignments among interest groups and political institutions, the Europeanisation of domestic interest organisations, and the question of bias in interest group populations. Thereby, they not only contribute to the comparative study of interest groups, but also to the analysis of policy-making, multilevel governance, and political representation in the EU.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)939-956
Number of pages18
JournalWest European Politics
Volume40
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jun 2017

Bibliographical note

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in West European Politics on 2 Jun 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01402382.2017.1320174

Keywords

  • interest organizations
  • multilevel governance
  • alignments
  • Europeanization
  • policy-making
  • European Union

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