THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND INTEREST GROUPS: TOWARDS A DELIBERATIVE INTERPRETATION OF STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT IN EU POLICY-MAKING - by Irina Tanasescu

2010 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 1139-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Eu Policy

The European Commission and Interest Groups: Towards a Deliberative Interpretation of Stakeholder Involvement in EU Policy-making, by Irina Tanasescu. Brussels: V.U.B. Press, 2009, 285 pp., € 38.50, Paperback.

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-456
Author(s):  
Alan Hardacre
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Political Scandals

The interaction between organised interests and the European Union institutions has been subject to increasing study and analysis in recent years, and the relevance of this increasingly important research agenda has been highlighted by political scandals and developments in 2011.

Political Agents as Relational Selves

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Dewandre ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Political Agents ◽  
The Eu

In this article, I argue that Hannah Arendt’s well-known but controversial distinction between labour, work, and action provides, perhaps unexpectedly, a conceptual grounding for transforming politics and policy-making at the EU level. Beyond the analysis and critique of modernity, Arendt brings the conceptual resources needed for the EU to move beyond the modern trap it fell into thirty years ago. At that time, the European Commission shifted its purpose away from enhancing interdependence among Member States with a common market towards achieving an internal market in the name of boosting growth and creating jobs. Arendt provides the conceptual tools to transform the conceptualisation of relations and of agents that fuels the growing dissatisfaction among many Europeans with EU policy-making. This argument is made through stretching and re-articulating Arendt’s labour-work-action distinction and taking seriously both the biological and plural dimensions of the human condition, besides its rational one. By applying this shift in an EU context, EU policies could change their priorities and better address the needs and expectations of plural political agents and of European citizens.

scholarly journals Lobbying influence: public consultations and EU policy making

VUZF Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Tatyana Todorova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Consultations

The European Commission considers involvement of interest groups as a way to strengthen democratic legitimacy in the European Union (EU). In terms of a strategy for enhancing good governance, the Commission has taken a range of actions to increase civil society inclusion. Whether these measures really add up to democratic legitimacy, however, depends on the allocation of influence among interest groups. In this context, the purpose of this study will be to analyze the distribution of influence by means of a quantitative analysis of submissions via the Commission’s public consultations.

9. The European Commission

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Egeberg
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Organization ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Implementation Programme

This chapter focuses on the European Commission, arguing that it is more productive to compare it to national executives or to a government than to a secretariat of a traditional international organization. It first provides an overview of the Commission's functions within the European Union's policy-making process, including agenda-setting, policy implementation, programme management, and external relations, and notes that the Commission plays a more limited role in foreign, security, and defence policy. The chapter proceeds by discussing the question of Commission influence and autonomy, along with the structure, demography, and decision behaviour within the Commission. It also describes committees and administrative networks that link the Commission to national administrations and interest groups, as well as the recent growth of EU agencies.

scholarly journals Interest Groups Incentives to Cooperate in the Production of Information in the Context of the EU Policy-Making

2018 ◽  
Vol XXI (Issue 4) ◽  
pp. 794-804
Author(s):  
A. Garcia-Lorenzo ◽  
J. Lopez-Rodriguez ◽  
J.M. Barreiro-Vinan
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Production Of Information

scholarly journals Cooperation in networks: Political parties and interest groups in EU policy-making in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-151
Author(s):  
Arndt Wonka ◽  
Sebastian Haunss
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Cooperative Behavior ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Political Support ◽  
European Union Policy ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Group Politics

Political actors cooperate with each other to share resources and to organize political support. In this article, we describe and explain such cooperative behavior in European Union policy-making by analyzing the information networks that parliamentarians of the Bundestag entertain with other party politicians and with interest groups. First, we describe whom parliamentarians cooperate with to receive policy information. Subsequently, we identify different types of cooperation networks. Differences in the structure of these networks point to a political division of labor inside political parties which is driven by the need to organize political support in policy-making. Finally, we test the explanatory power of individual attributes, institutional positions and (shared) political interests to account for the structure of parliamentarians’ cooperation networks. While formal positions and party ideology generally shape parliamentarians’ cooperation, their relative importance varies across different types of networks. The article contributes theoretically to informational theories of interest group politics and to the literature on national legislators’ behavior in EU policy-making.

scholarly journals Involvement of Asian Actors in the European Commission’s Online Consultations in Comparative Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petya Alexandrova ◽  
Gert-Jan Lindeboom ◽  
Anne Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
External Representation ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Economic Ties

In order to examine the involvement of Asian interests in European Union politics, we develop a preliminary framework for studying the involvement of external interests in EU policy -making. Using data on the online consultations of the European Commission from 2001 till 2010, we aim at explaining both the level of engagement, the types of active actors and policy areas of involvement of different regions. We find that that external representation is partly but not fully accounted for by economic ties and possession of resources. Moreover, we find variation in which areas and by which actors different regions are represented suggesting that variation in national-sectoral structures between them affects differences in the character of representation between them.

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