Corporate lobbying in the European Union : the logic of acess
By: BOUWEN, Pieter
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ArticlePublisher: June 2002Subject(s): Grupo de pressão | Área de Livre Comércio | Negociação | Comércio Exterior | EuropaJournal of European Public Policy 9, 3, p. 365-390Abstract: The complexity and diversity of European interest politics is exemplified by the multitude of channels and targets that private actors use to lobby in the EU multi-level of systems. The aim of this article is to investigate the logic behind the apparent ad hoc lobbying behaviour of private interests. A theoretical framework is developed is order to explain the acess of business interests to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. The degree of acess to these institutions is explained in terms of a theory of demand and supply of acess goods. Acess goods concern information that is crucial in the EU policy-making process. In order to gain acess to and EU institution, business interests have to provide the acess good(s) demanded by that institution,. Organizational form is introduced as the innovationally studied in relation to two other organizational forms: individual company action and third-party representation
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The complexity and diversity of European interest politics is exemplified by the multitude of channels and targets that private actors use to lobby in the EU multi-level of systems. The aim of this article is to investigate the logic behind the apparent ad hoc lobbying behaviour of private interests. A theoretical framework is developed is order to explain the acess of business interests to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. The degree of acess to these institutions is explained in terms of a theory of demand and supply of acess goods. Acess goods concern information that is crucial in the EU policy-making process. In order to gain acess to and EU institution, business interests have to provide the acess good(s) demanded by that institution,. Organizational form is introduced as the innovationally studied in relation to two other organizational forms: individual company action and third-party representation
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