Interest groups do not have complete directorial control of their own destiny—even mature
and savvy professionalized organized interests face significant challenges. Intra-and inter …

When do membership-based civil society organizations such as interest groups, political
parties or service-oriented organizations consider their existence under threat …

Het is een zomerdag in 2003. De Tijdelijke Commissie Onderzoek Integratiebeleid van de
Tweede Kamer3 voert een serie besloten gesprekken met betrokkenen bij het …

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

Few scholars in political science or public administration deny that organization matters.
However, the rare application of an organizational perspective in research suggests …

Political activity is conventionally considered a constitutive feature of interest groups,
underpinning an impressive literature on the strategies groups employ to exercise political …

This article constructs a framework for understanding the activities of interest groups and
other civil society organisations (CSOs) in relation to their democratic connections with …

How to Do Public Policy offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve
problem-solving with policies in a political world. It integrates insights from applied policy …

The investigation of the internal workings of interest groups opens the view on the
behavioural dynamics within these organisations. By analysing their intraorganisational …

The American Anomaly systematically analyzes the US political system by way of
comparison with other countries, especially other industrialized democracies. It is organized …