Informational Lobbying in the European Union: The Effect of Organisational Characteristics

Klüver, Heike

doi:10.1080/01402382.2012.665737

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“…An evident indicator involves the amount of staff employed by an organization. Human resources are critical to effective advocacy, as they enable organizations to survive, monitor political processes, develop specialized expertise, network and set up campaigns to attract new supporters and members (Klüver, 2012;Klüver and Saurugger, 2013). In this article, we use the amount of full-time equivalent employed as a proxy for an organization's capacity in terms of financial resources, which we consider indicative of a group's potential to provide policy expertise (H6).…”

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Who’s in and who’s out?: Explaining access to policymakers in Belgium

Fraussen

Beyers

2015

Acta Polit

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In most political systems, the community of policy insiders represents a small subset of the total interest group population. Therefore, one key question is which factors explain why some mobilized interests become insiders and others remain outsiders. By contrasting a bottom-up registration of interest groups with a top-down census of all groups that enjoy access to policymakers, we present a unique approach to distinguish insiders from outsiders. This approach allows us to systematically analyze which factorssuch as resources, constituency, scale of organization and policy portfolio -predict who becomes a policy insider. Our analysis focuses on interest group politics in Belgium, and shows that next to resources, the size of the membership, the scale of organization and a group's policy portfolio are strong predictors of the likelihood to gain access.

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Who’s in and who’s out?: Explaining access to policymakers in Belgium

Fraussen

Beyers

2015

Acta Polit

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“…Several studies use surveys to shed light onto how variations in institutional structure affect organizational behavior (Eising, 2004;Reenock and Gerber, 2007;Tsujinaka and Pekkanen, 2007;Klüver, 2010;Constantelos, 2011;Pleines, 2011) and to better understand groups' relationships and interactions with bureaucratic institutions, political decision-makers or governmental bodies (Braun, 2012a, b;Klüver, 2012b;The LSE GV314 Group, 2012;Rasmussen, 2012;Chalmers, 2013).…”

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The use of surveys in interest group research

Marchetti

2015

Int Groups Adv

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Scholars utilize a variety of research methods in studies of interest group formation, presence and influence. From aggregate counts of interest group populations to in-depth participant observation, scholars have used a variety of methods in studies of interest groups' role(s) in the policy process. The application of survey research has proven to be a successful method for obtaining group-specific information across a variety of group types and settings. Though organizational sampling and methods of survey dissemination can differ dramatically across studies, the subfield lacks a comprehensive review of the use of surveys within interest group research. This paucity leaves unanswered several questions regarding the frequency and efficacy of survey research within the subfield. What types of questions have been answered via surveys of organizations? What benefits are provided by this methodological approach? What challenges emerge when surveying interest groups and how have scholars overcome these obstacles? These questions are pertinent to scholars of interest groups and survey researchers alike, and this review provides guidance for the construction and dissemination of future interest group surveys.Scholars utilize an extensive array of research methods in the exploration of interest group formation, presence and influence. From aggregate counts of interest group populations to in-depth participant observation, the question of how interest groups function in the policy process has been, and continues to be, explored from myriad angles. Of these many approaches, survey research has proven to be one successful method for obtaining group-specific information across a variety of organizational types and settings. Though organizational sampling and methods of survey dissemination can differ dramatically across studies, the subfield lacks a comprehensive review of the use of surveys within interest group research. This review 1 provides information about the use of surveys in studies of interest groups with a focus on research questions that have been answered via survey methods, the unique challenge of identifying

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“…Today there is a vast European Union (EU) literature mapping the density of lobbying activity in the EU (Berhkhout and Lowery 2010;Wonka et al 2010) and a number of policy studies that seek to assess the impact of lobbyists on EU policy formulation (Klüver 2011;Rasmussen 2012). While others follow the multi-level policy process (Beyers and Kerremans 2007;Dur and Mateo 2010), few have sought to map the variance within the European Commission and between Directorate Generals (DGs) across policy domains (Broscheid and Coen 2007;Mahoney 2004).…”

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