The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different
countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them. This new …

While interest groups are consulted at different stages of policy making to provide expertise
and legitimacy, their influence is often criticized as being undemocratic. Yet, we know little …

Contemporary governance is increasingly characterized by the consultation of different
types of stakeholders, such as interest groups representing economic and citizen interests …

Abstract The European Union interest group population is often characterised as being
biased towards business and detached from its constituency base. Many scholars attribute …

While strong voices in the academic literature and real-world politics regard interest groups
as biased representatives of the public, we know little about the scope and consequences of …

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 …

Do political parties respond to interest group mobilization? While party responsiveness to
voters has received widespread attention, little is known about how interest groups affect …

The literature on European legal mobilization asks why individuals, groups and companies
go to court and explores the impact of litigation on policy, institutions and the balance of …

Evidence suggests that business lobbying shapes European Union (EU) border security
policies, but there has been no detailed empirical and theoretical work detailing how interest …

Olson's logic of collective action predicts that business interest associations face fewer
collective action problems than citizen action groups. This article challenges this assumption …