Chapter 8 Is the EU different?
The European Union interest group population is often characterised as being biased towards business and detached from its constituency base. Many scholars attribute this to institutional factors unique to the EU. Yet, assessing whether or not the EU is indeed unique in this regard requires a com...
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| author | Berkhout, Joost Hanegraaff, Marcel Braun, Caelesta |
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| description | The European Union interest group population is often characterised as being
biased towards business and detached from its constituency base. Many scholars
attribute this to institutional factors unique to the EU. Yet, assessing whether or
not the EU is indeed unique in this regard requires a comparative research design.
We compare the EU interest group population with those in four member states:
France, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. We diff erentiate system, policy
domain and organisational factors and examine their eff ects on interest group
diversity. Our results show that the EU interest system is not more biased towards
the representation of business interests than the other systems. Moreover, EU
interest organisations are not more detached from their constituents than those in
the studied countries. Everywhere, business interest associations seem to be better
capable of representing their members’ interests than civil society groups. These
fi ndings suggest that the EU is less of a sui generis system than commonly assumed
and imply the need for more fi ne-grained analyses of interest group diversity. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-375712025-03-04T09:48:47Z Chapter 8 Is the EU different? Berkhout, Joost Hanegraaff, Marcel Braun, Caelesta EU level systems organisations diversity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government The European Union interest group population is often characterised as being biased towards business and detached from its constituency base. Many scholars attribute this to institutional factors unique to the EU. Yet, assessing whether or not the EU is indeed unique in this regard requires a comparative research design. We compare the EU interest group population with those in four member states: France, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. We diff erentiate system, policy domain and organisational factors and examine their eff ects on interest group diversity. Our results show that the EU interest system is not more biased towards the representation of business interests than the other systems. Moreover, EU interest organisations are not more detached from their constituents than those in the studied countries. Everywhere, business interest associations seem to be better capable of representing their members’ interests than civil society groups. These fi ndings suggest that the EU is less of a sui generis system than commonly assumed and imply the need for more fi ne-grained analyses of interest group diversity. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-10-01 23:55:55 2019-10-17 14:47:36 2020-04-01T12:18:17Z 2018 chapter 1001769 OCN: 1083014675 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28224 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37571 eng West European Politics open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28224/1/9781138614741_oachapter8.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28224/1/9781138614741_oachapter8.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28224/1/9781138614741_oachapter8.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28224/1/9781138614741_oachapter8.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 National Interest Organizations in the EU Multilevel System Routledge 24 open access |
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