Achieving Democracy Through Interest Representation: Interest Groups in Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Rozbicka, Patrycja; Kamiński, Paweł; Novák, Miroslav; Jankauskaitė, Vaida

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“…Chapter 4 written by Szczepan Czarnecki is, to our knowledge, one of the first to address lobbying tactics of organized interest groups in the post-communist context (see also Rozbicka et al, 2020). Based on our comparative survey data, he explores the forums (governments, parliaments or the public) in which energy advocacy groups operate.…”

Section: Part 2 Interest Intermediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Chapter 12, Paweł Kamiński enters unchartered territory in CEE by systematically analysing the relationship between interest groups and political parties (see also Rozbicka et al, 2020). Specifically, he explores whether interest groups in CEE are occupying territory in the political space, which is "abandoned" by political parties, or contrarily, whether interest groups and parties are following a similar pattern of biased representation and indifference towards civil society.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(1 -very weak, 2 -weak, 3 -moderate, 4strong, 5 -very strong) Most groups indicated a relatively low level, shedding doubt on corporatist-like policy-making. However, the scores do rise somewhat if we exclusively look at umbrella organizations (for a more nuanced picture of healthcare, see Chapter 5 in this volume; for energy policy interest intermediation, see Horváthová et al forthcoming, for higher education, see Dobbins et al, forthcoming; for labor policy, Rozbicka et al, 2020). Particularly interesting is the very low score for Slovenia, which contradicts Jahn's (2016) classification of Slovenia as the most corporatist country in CEE, at least in socio-economic policy-making.…”

Section: Some Final General Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The book by Rozbicka et al (2020) also more systematically addresses ties between interest groups and political parties, while the authors of the present book engage more intensively with the phenomena of democratic backsliding and illiberal civil society in CEE. And while their book offers outstanding overviews of where interest groups target their activities (courts, parliaments, executives, civil servants, parties, etc.…”

Section: A Final Introductory Notementioning

confidence: 98%

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Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making

Dobbins¹,

Riedel²

2021

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This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas -healthcare, higher education and energy.The four countries surveyed -Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic -afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country and cross-policy comparative analyses. Featuring interdisciplinary research, the book draws together recent developments in the evolution of post-communist advocacy organizations, their population ecology dynamics, interest intermediation, the influence of organized interests and their (bottom-up and top-down) Europeanization. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, interest groups and lobbying, post-communism, transition and consolidation studies, and more broadly to European studies/politics.

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Section: Part 2 Interest Intermediationmentioning

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Section: Part 5 Excursions To Other Territorymentioning

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Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making

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Riedel²

2021

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“…However, there has been a recent boom in analyses of organized interests in the region. Scholars have covered, among other things, population ecologies Rozbicka and Kamiński, 2021) and advocacy strategies (Rozbicka et al, 2020;Czarnecki, 2021), while also exploring state-interest group interactions (Ost, 2011;Olejnik, 2020;Dobbins and Riedel, 2021) and lobbying regimes (Vargovčíková, 2017;Rozbicka et al, 2020). Most recently, observers have also produced studies on the concrete impact of organized interests on policymaking (Horváthová and Dobbins, 2019;Rozbicka et al, 2020).…”

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Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups

Dobbins

Horváthová

Labanino

2022

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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While there has been a veritable boom in literature on organized interests, their lobbying strategies, relationships with decision-makers, and their impact on policymaking, only a few studies have explored internal organizational developments and, specifically, the professionalization of interest groups. The present study focuses on the national and transnational factors driving the professionalization of interest groups in Central and Eastern Europe, a region previously neglected in much of the interest group literature. Based on a sample of more than 400 surveyed organizations operating in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovenia in the healthcare, higher education, and energy sectors, we explore three bundles of factors potentially enhancing the professionalization of interest groups – organizational funding sources, national and transnational intergroup cooperation and organizations’ standing in the domestic interest group system. Our statistical analyses show that state subsidies and tight policy coordination with the state are crucial drivers of internal organizational professionalization, suggesting rather patronistic and symbiotic relationships between the state and certain organizations. However, our data also support the notion that interorganizational collaboration, both at the national and international levels, may also be key to organizational professionalization, enabling groups that lack close ties with the state to compensate their disadvantage with intensive domestic and international networking. The study is also among the first to link increasing professionalization with organizational population density.

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The Macro-Political Context and Interest Groups' Access to Policymakers

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Dobbins

2023

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The article explores how macro-level political factors in conjunction with micro- and meso-level factors affect interest-group access to policymakers. The analysis is conducted based on two original data sets: a population ecology database of Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovenian national-level energy policy, healthcare and higher education organizations, and an online survey of these populations. Combining the two data sets allows us to investigate both polity-, population- and organizational-level factors. As the sampled countries have recently experienced democratic backsliding, we also test the effect of closing deliberative structures. The analysis reveals that the political process influences access: legislative fractionalization affects access positively, while the closure of deliberative structures has a negative effect. Nevertheless, the political contextual factors are mediated through variables at both the population (e.g. the size of latent constituency) and organizational (e.g. expertise provision) levels, as well as the meso-level of interorganizational cooperation.

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Achieving Democracy Through Interest Representation: Interest Groups in Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making

Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making

Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups

The Macro-Political Context and Interest Groups' Access to Policymakers

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