Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

What explains differences in the lobbying behaviour of interest groups? And what
consequences do these differences have for the access that interest groups can gain to …

Interest groups differ in the strategies they use to influence public policy. Some mainly try to
gain access (ie, have direct contact with decision makers), whereas others tend to 'go …

Abstract Social Network Analysis (SNA) conceptualizes a policy-making process as a
network of actors. It can assess if an interest group (IGs) occupies a leading central position …

The number of interest groups that are active in the European Union increased sharply from
the mid-1980s onwards (Greenwood 2007: 12). 1 Since one of the main objectives of these …

All too often, research on the influence of interest organizations in democratic politics
produces null findings. What are we to make of these results? In part, the answer may lie in …

This paper develops a typology of strategies used by political actors to place issues on the
Europena Union (EU) agenda. In doing so, it builds on a theoretically derived twofold …

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 …

Important parts of the literature on strategies of interest organizations consider the political
activities of interest organizations as serving to build and maintain exchange relationships …

According to a widespread assumption, party–interest group links are significantly weaker
than they used to be. Both sets of organizations, it is said, now prefer autonomy over the …