Interest groups and EU policy-making: Organisational logic and venue shopping

2006 ◽  
pp. 263-284
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Venue Shopping

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.

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.

18. Policies and Policy Making in the European Union

2014 ◽  
pp. 331-350
Author(s):  
Ian Bache ◽  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Owen Parker
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
European Court ◽  
Fisheries Policy ◽  
The Common

This chapter examines policies and the patterns of policy making in the European Union. The formal EU policy process begins with the European Commission (EC) drawing up proposals for legislation, at which stage it will consult widely with interest groups, technical experts, and national government officials. It will also consult members of the European Parliament (EP). The open method of co-ordination (OMC) has been introduced into what was the EC pillar, giving the member states stronger control and excluding the EP and the European Court of Justice. The chapter first considers how the European policy agenda is formed before discussing the EU policy process. It then explores minor policy areas such as the Common Fisheries Policy, fraud, and the information society, and major policy areas such as competition, employment and social policy, energy, research, and transport.

Understanding Eu Policy Making

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raj S. Chari ◽  
Sylvia Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Eu Policy
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