By Heike Kluver
Why can a few curiosity teams impression policy-making whereas others can't? even supposing this question is imperative to the examine of politics, we all know little in regards to the components explaining curiosity workforce effect. knowing lobbying luck will be of specific crisis to students of ecu politics because the eu Union constitutes a promising political chance constitution for equipped pursuits. This ebook sheds gentle at the effect of curiosity teams on ecu policy-making and makes an enormous contribution to the learn of either ecu Union politics and curiosity teams extra normally. Kluver develops a complete theoretical version for figuring out lobbying luck and provides an in depth empirical research of curiosity team impression on policy-making within the ecu. The booklet depends on a wide, new, and cutting edge dataset that mixes a wide selection of information assets together with a quantitative textual content research of eu fee consultations, an internet survey of curiosity teams, info amassed on curiosity team web content, and legislative facts retrieved from ecu databases. This e-book analyzes curiosity staff effect throughout fifty six coverage matters and 2,696 curiosity teams and exhibits that lobbying is an alternate dating during which the ecu associations exchange impact for info, citizen help and financial energy. Importantly, this e-book demonstrates that it's not adequate to completely concentrate on person curiosity teams, yet that it will be important how curiosity teams come jointly in issue-specific lobbying coalitions. Lobbying is a collective company within which details provide, citizen aid, and fiscal strength of complete lobbying coalitions are decisive for lobbying luck
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If a policy issue is highly complex, the European institutions need a high amount of information from interest groups. Hence, interest groups which can supply the information needed by the Commission, the Council, and the European Parliament should be in a good position to influence the policy-making process. However, if a policy issue is hardly complex at all, the European institutions barely need any information. Interest groups which rely mainly on providing information to European decision-makers should thus find it very difficult to have an impact on the legislative debate.
For the sake of analytical parsimony, I treat the European Commission as a unitary actor while I theorize about the objectives of the European Parliament and the Council on the level of individual MEPs and national governments respectively. I assume that the role-specific interest of the European Commission is the presentation of policy proposals that successfully 30 Lobbying in the European Union pass the legislative process while the role-specific interest of MEPs and national governments is reelection.
The European Commission therefore plays a central role for policy formulation in the European Union. Principals, however, face the problem of agency-shirking which occurs when agents behave opportunistically by pursuing their own interests (Moe 1990, 121; Kiewiet and McCubbins 1991, 5). Member states have therefore installed several oversight mechanisms to control the behavior of the European Commission, such as the appointment process of Commissioners, the comitology procedure, the possibility of judicial review by the European Court of Justice, and the requirement that the Council has to approve any proposal of the European Commission before it can enter into force (Pollack 1997a, 2003).