… breadth of policy engagement by interest groups. The literature suggests that most groups
tend … In fact, this is the core expectation from the public policy literature, where terms like ‘sub-…

… In this chapter, we focus on the policy capacity of interest groups. More specifically, we
explore which types of policy capacities interest groups may develop, as well as how the policy …

… policy engagement, and hence about policy specialization, via directly tracking the engagement
patterns of organized interests … that ‘numerous interest groups monitor any given policy …

… by interest groups? In order to answer these questions and systematically assess the role of
institutional structures, issue specific factors and interest group … interest group factors on the …

… practitioners to determine which entities to engage and the roles that they might assume in
citizen engagement activities to address public policy changes. It draws upon the concepts of …

… While scholars have used a variety of terms to describe the policy engagement of groups,
we … As the first two concepts are relatively well established in the interest group literature, we …

… ROMA is an approach to improving your policy engagement … any stage in their policy
engagement process to improve how … on policy-making, set realistic objectives for policy influence, …

… of a list of interest groups compiled by the authors (see Fraussen and Halpin 2016). We
define an interest group as any voluntary association for which policy advocacy is a major …

… other, contacting public officials, participating in political meetings, engaging in informal
community activity in order to solve a problem; working with interest groups to influence policy …

… In addition, the vast majority of associations in which we study engagement are not
classic examples of interest groups that represent narrow constituencies of specialist …