EU Lobbying: Empirical and Theoretical Studies

by Coen; David

• ISBN13: 9780415449175
• ISBN10: 0415449170
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

EU Lobbying: Empirical and Theoretical studies offers an analysis of large empirical studies of interest group politics and Lobbying in Europe. Recognising the continued European economic integration, globalisation and the changing role of the state, it observs significant adaptations in interest mobilisation and strategic behavour. This book assesses the logic of collective and direct action, the logic of access and influence, the logic of venue-shopping and alliance building. It addresses specific issues such as: the emergence of elite pluralism in EU institutions, the pump priming of political action by EU institutions, and the growing political sophistication of private and public interests in Brussels. Through these issues the book explores how interest groups lobby different European institutions along the policy process and how the nature of policy dictates the style and level of lobbying. This book was previously published as a special issue of Jounal of European Public Policy

Table of Contents

Empirical and theoretical studies in EU lobbying	p. 1
Lobbying activity and fora creation in the EU: empirically exploring the nature of the policy good	p. 14
Networking vs. allying: the decision of interest groups to join coalitions in the US and the EU	p. 34
The access of business interests to EU institutions: towards elite pluralism?	p. 52
The impact of the traditional business - government relationship on the Europeanization of Japanese firms	p. 72
Lobbying versus litigation: political and legal strategies of interest representation in the European Union	p. 90
With a little help from the state: interest intermediation in the domestic pre-negotiations of EU legislation	p. 112
Critical resource dependencies and the Europeanization of domestic interest groups	p. 128
Commentary: EU lobbying: a view from the US	p. 150
Index	p. 157
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