Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though
this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining …

Does lobbying success in the European Union vary systematically across interest group
type? Interest groups lobby the European institutions in order to achieve policy decisions …

Why are some interest groups able to lobby political decisions successfully whereas others
are not? This article suggests that the issue context is an important source of variation …

We outline a conceptual framework that identifies and characterizes the contextual nature of
interest group politics in the European Union (EU) to better understand variation in interest …

Why does lobbying success in the European Union (EU) vary across interest groups? Even
though this question is central to the study of EU policy-making, only few have dealt with it …

This article analyzes the formation of lobbying coalitions in European Union legislative
politics. Specifically, we investigate whether interest organizations establish coalitions and …

In their pursuit of political influence, interest groups face the choice to contact policy elites
directly or to generate pressure indirectly by appealing to the public at large. This article …

The political success of organized interests is widely considered to depend on their capacity
to provide helpful information: lobbyists that can offer highquality information to policy …

This paper evaluates the circumstances under which affluent interest groups wield influence
over policy outcomes. Interest group scholarship is ambiguous about the beneficial role of …

This article develops and tests a theory of party group lobbying that demonstrates how the E
uropean P arliament's decision‐making process shapes interest group interactions with …