Interest Group Organisation in the European Union
The investigation of the internal workings of interest groups opens the view on the behavioural dynamics within these organisations. By analysing their intraorganisational structures, this book explains how groups prepare to become active in the European Union and why we observe contact, conflict and cooperation of interest groups and other political actors in the European arena.
The book presents four causal mechanisms which explain, on the one hand, why interest groups engage with contacts across a diverse set of political actors and, on the other hand, why some interest organisations are more actionable at the European level than others. It furthermore elaborates a typology of interest groups along intraorganisational criteria. The analysis of twelve differing case studies provides a rich empirical ground to explain how and why certain intraorganisational processes unfold within interest groups. It thereby sheds light on the behavioural organisational patterns which drive interest group agency in European multi-level politics.
This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of interest groups, lobbying, European Union politics and more broadly to public policy/administration and comparative politics.
Michelle Hollman is a researcher at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences of the University of Bremen, Germany.
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How Internal Organisational Structures Shape Interest Group Agency
Michelle Hollman
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Note: This book is based on the PhD dissertation by Michelle Hollman. The dissertation was submitted on January 24 2017 and defended on 20 April 2017 at the University of Bremen, Germany. The members of the defence committee were Dr. Arndt Wonka (first promoter), Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp (second promoter), Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens (internal examiner) and Dr. Joost Berkhout (external examiner).
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