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 …

Countless interest groups representing governments and civil societies try to lobby the
European Union effectively in pursuit of the desired legislation, subsidies and more. This …

With over 30,000 lobbyists in town, Brussels is often called the European capital of lobbying.
Despite this, little is known on how this political system works in practice. This book offers an …

Wie trekken er in Brussel, het centrum van de Europese besluitvorming, aan de touwtjes en
maken het verschil? En op welke manier kunnen ministeries, lokale overheden …

Finally, I would like to dedicate this monograph to my parents:–to my father, Karl Welz, who
took me abroad (US and Belgium), consented (during a 30-kilometre walk) to the …

Over the past two decades, civil society has played a pivotal role in Europe, from the demise
of Communist rule to the reunification of Europe, followed by the expansion of the single …

This paper focuses on policy networks and implications surrounding the complex legal
requirements on functional foods in the European Union (EU). Using social network …

For several decades it was expected that the Western-type welfare state would do away with
poverty, and indeed until the 1980s this was an observable tendency in the member states …

Is the political system of the European Union (EU), and the European Commission (EC)
consultations in particular, systematically biased in favour of some interests over others? In …

Dieses Lehrbuch beschreibt die institutionellen Grundlagen und Eigenheiten europäischer
Verwaltungsstrukturen und zeichnet wichtige theoretische Debatten nach, die ihre …