Interest groups are key intermediary actors that communicate societal interests and
preferences to public officials. Given public officials' reliance on interest groups' input in …

This article analyses to what extent and under which conditions revolving door practices
relate to access to the European Commission (EC). The revolving door hypothesis is …

In this article, we argue that many contemporary challenges to democracy can be traced
back to how political organizations compete for attention. We begin with the idea that these …

Why do some interest group systems provide group members with more elaborate voice
opportunities than other systems? We argue that evaluating membership voice is important …

This article examines whether political professionalization causes attitudinal incongruence
within political parties. In this first of a kind study, the internal opinion structure of five Belgian …

This article investigates the relationship between public funding and the political activities of
youth organisations in Europe. By analysing original data from a random sample of about …

This article theorises and empirically investigates the membership involvement offer in
political parties and interest groups in contemporary democracies, to better understand the …

In recent years, pessimism about plebiscitary intra-party democracy has been challenged by
assembly-based models of intra-party democracy. However, research has yet to explore the …

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Media reporting and academic research into young climate civil society organisations
(CSOs) often focus on organisations using direct, confrontational and often controversial …