The European Union Interest System in Comparative Perspective
A Bridge Too Far
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8041513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Lowery (0000-0002-6267-9712), Caelesta Poppelaars, Joost Berkhout (0000-0003-0527-8960) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1231-1252 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402380802372670 |
| OpenAlex | W2166521349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 68 |
Can we meaningfully compare within a single theoretical framework the politics of interest representation in the European Union with its counterparts in the United States and other national political systems? We address this question by first considering several candidate explanations for the lack of broad-ranging comparative research on interest representation, focusing in the end on the problem of context. We then argue that much of the recent progress in the literature is a result more of segmentation of theoretical issues. The third section discusses how this successful strategy of segmentation has unfortunately raised new theoretical barriers to comparative analysis. This argument is explored by comparing work on organised interests in the EU with two other cases - the hyper-pluralistic interest politics of the United States and the neo-corporatist politics of the Netherlands
Argument (complex analysis · Comparative politics · Context (archaeology · Economics · European union · International trade · National interest · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · History · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Partisan Models and the Search for Party Effects in the US Senate
Interest Group Theory
The Party Faithful
How Parties Nominate Presidents
The Comparative Advantage of State Interest Organization Research
Theories of Parties
The Road Less Taken
Party Coalitions in the US Congress
Social and Economic Justice Movements and Organizations
Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus?
Party Nominating Procedures and Recruitment—State and Local Level
Activists, Influence, and Representation in American Elections
Methodological Issues in the Study of Political Parties
Political Parties and Consultants
State Parties Research
The Mobilization and Influence of Business Interests
What a Difference Twenty-Five Years Makes
Interest Groups and Agendas
Interest Groups in American Elections
The State of Research on Political Parties and Interest Groups
The Evolution of National Party Organizations
Lobbying and Influence
Urban Interest Groups
The Evolution and Alteration of American Party Coalitions
The Pure Partisan Institution
Linking Political Parties and Interest Groups
The President, Party Politics, and Constitutional Development
Winning Isn't Everything
Methodological Perspectives on Interest Groups
American Political Parties
Their Members’ Voice
The Oxford handbook of American political parties and interest groups
Investigating the Dynamics of European University Alliances as Multi‐Level Governance Spaces
The brash and the soft-spoken
Why interest organizations do what they do
Advocacy group effects in global governance
Interest groups as multi-venue players
Exploring the impact of partisan gatekeeping on interest group representation and bias
NGO participation in global governance institutions
The determinants of direct corporate lobbying in the EU
Lobbying and policy conflict
Interest Representation in the European Union and Beyond
Neglecting results? A critical view of the literature on organised interests in the European Union
The policy process in Washington
Lobbying-Forschung und Interessengruppeneinfluss
The Old and the Young
Interest groups in multiple streams
Business Groups and Advocacy Success
The Density of the EU Interest System
Interest Groups in the European Union
Legislative lobbying in context
Regulating the audit market in the European Union
Navigating between ‘friends’ and ‘foes
Access to climate policy-making in the European Union and in Norway
Measuring the size and scope of the EU interest group population
Conclusion
Lobbying the state or the market? A framework to study civil society organizations’ strategic behavior
Something New on the Western Front
Explaining the patterns of contacts between interest groups and political parties
Explaining varying lobbying styles across the Atlantic
The size and shape of the Italian interest system between the 1980s and the present day
Measuring Interest Group Influence in the EU
When do politicians listen to lobbyists (and who benefits when they do)
NGO Influence in International Organizations
The hollow core
American business and public policy
'A Dutch Miracle'
Basic Interests
The Population Ecology of Interest Representation
Outside Lobbying
Mobilizing Interest Groups in America
Interest Representation in the European Union
The logic of comparative social Inquiry
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Towards Post-corporatist Concertation in Europe?
Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration
American Business and Political Power
The Logic of Collective Action
Social science concepts
Defining Interests
Small States and Small States Revisited
The Iron Ring in Dutch Politics Revisited
The Politics of Accommodation
Modes of Interest Intermediation and Models of Societal Change in Western Europe
Clientelism, Committees, Pluralism and Protests in the European Union
The European Business Interest and the Nation State
Critical resource dependencies and the Europeanization of domestic interest groups
Lobbying in the European Union
Changing Patterns of Interest Intermediation in the European Union
Multilevel Governance and Business Interests in the European Union
Moving Into the European Orbit
Exchanging access goods for access
Going Public in the European Union
A Bias Towards Business? Assessing Interest Group Influence on the U.S. Bureaucracy
Organized Interests and Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court
Social Theory and Social Structure
Conclusion
A Neopluralist Perspective on Research on Organized Interests
Putting Ordinary Language to Work
The Question of Interest Group Influence
Lobbying activity and fora creation in the EU
Empirical and theoretical studies in EU lobbying
Comparative studies of policy agendas
Representing diffuse interests in EC policy-making
An example of competitive corporatism? the Dutch political economy 1983–2004 in critical examination
The access of business interests to EU institutions
On the Rise and Decline of Nations
Voice and Access
The Power of Institutions
Corporatism in 24 industrial democracies
Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Societal Interests
After Corporatism
Studying Public Policy
Corporatism
The Expression of Density Dependence in State Communities of Organized Interests
Interest Groups in Comparative Analysis
Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics
Buying Time
Organized Interests and the Decision of Whom to Lobby in Congress
Conceptual "Stretching" Revisited
| Unique citing works | 64 |
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| Citations per year | 3,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |