Any democratic society requires mechanisms for citizens to have effective political voice.
Clearly, political parties provide a key channel for expressing views and preferences …

Interest groups form an important part of the development of political and social systems.
This book goes beyond current literature in examining the survival and 'careers' of such …

Using the entries in the US-based Encyclopedia of Associations and the UK Directory of
British Associations, 1 this chapter reviews the growth and development of the associational …

Although scholarship has highlighted the role of stakeholders in policy making, less is
known about the preparations they make that lay the groundwork for their lobbying activities …

While political parties provide a key channel for political representation, organised interests
can also be an important mechanism. A valid question is whether a system of interest groups …

Interest groups cannot advocate on every issue they might consider relevant. They must
decide what issues to prioritise and which ones to leave to one side. In this article, we …

Scholars have hotly debated the structure of group engagement in policymaking. Two
aspects of this conversation are examined here. First, some claim that the “explosion” of …

The chapter analyses the role interest groups play in the policy-making process and
assesses their impact on public policy outputs. It discusses a number of models of the policy …

While much progress has been made in empirically mapping and analysing a variety of
interest group activities in the last decade, less attention has been devoted to conceptual …

This article assesses the size and diversity of Belgium's interest group population by
triangulating four data sources. Combining various sources allows us to describe which …