Rainer Eising - National Interest Organizations in the Eu Multilevel System

Political scientists have always accorded interest organizations a prominent place in European Union (EU) policy-making because they connect the EU institutions to citizens, provide important information to EU policy-makers, and control resources that impact on the problem-solving capacity of EU policies. In other words, they are vital to both the input legitimacy and the output legitimacy of the EU. So far, research on interest organizations in EU policy-making has concentrated on EU-level interest organizations and EU-level politics. This edited book draws attention to the role national interest organizations play in the EU multilevel system. All contributions present state-of-the-art research on that subject in the form of theory-driven empirical analyses. The ten chapters indicate that national interest organizations have adapted to the EUs multilevel polity in terms of their strategies; their relations with parliaments, governments, and the EU institutions; as well as their collaboration with EU umbrella organizations. Especially, they offer new insights into the alignments among national interest organizations and decision-makers, the Europeanisation of these organizations in established EU member states and candidate countries, and the existence of bias in national and EU interest group populations.

The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of West European Politics.

Rainer Eising is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He has published widely on interest groups, multilevel governance, and policy-making in the EU. He was principal investigator in the INTEREURO project and has recently directed a MERCUR project on interest groups in German political arenas.

Daniel Rasch is Postdoctoral Researcher at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. His research focuses on international as well as national interest mediation, governance, and research methods.

Patrycja Rozbicka is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of interest groups activity in national and European policy-making and politics of the live music industry in the UK and Europe.

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Edited by
Rainer Eising, Daniel Rasch
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The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal West European Politics, volume 40, issue 5 (September 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

National interest organisations in EU policy-making
Rainer Eising, Daniel Rasch and Patrycja Rozbicka
West European Politics, volume 40, issue 5 (September 2017) pp. 939-956

Who says what to whom? Alignments and arguments in EU policy-making
Rainer Eising, Daniel Rasch, Patrycja Rozbicka, Danica Fink-Hafner, Mitja Hafner-Fink and Meta Novak
West European Politics, volume 40, issue 5 (September 2017) pp. 957-980