After years of relative neglect, the role of private interest groups in European policy‐making
has attracted the attention of students of European integration once again. However …

The multilevel governance literature on European politics argues that supranational
governing arrangements have increased their autonomy vis–à–vis national governments. As …

As a result of growing economic globalization and rapid technological changes governance
in the field of information and communication policy increasingly requires policy co …

Our study is concerned with two key actors present in all advanced policy making systems—
bureaucracies and interest groups—although we recognise that the EU policy process …

In any political system, interests organise themselves to influence the policy-making process
and try to shape the institutions of policy-making to their own benefit. This chapter …

The influence of interest groups is an important question especially with regard to the role of
interest groups for democratic decision-making. Research on EU interest intermediation still …

There is a plethora of studies on interest groups in the European Union. While these studies
have generated a wealth of insights, it is not actually clear what they have accomplished …

Researchers have put forward seemingly contradictory hypotheses on how European
integration might impact on national interest intermediation. This study proposes to include …

This paper argues that the most recent updates of classic integration theory tend to overstate
the role of economic interest groups in European integration. Both'liberal …

The number of interest groups that are active in the European Union increased sharply from
the mid-1980s onwards (Greenwood 2007: 12). 1 Since one of the main objectives of these …