| Andreas Warntjen, Arndt Wonka (Eds.) | |||
| Governance in Europe |
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| The Role of Interest Groups | |||
| 163 pp., Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2004 | |||
| ISBN 3-8329-0634-7 | |||
| Go to | List of Contributors |
Abstract
The concept of governance has increasingly attracted practitioners and scholars of politics
and public administration. "Governance" comprises reflections on new forms of public control and
regulation, which strive to come to terms with the complex challenges of modern societies. Besides
the potential gains in efficiency, governance has immense normative implications due to possible
problems of accountability and transparency. The European context provides a particular interesting
field of study as it represents an evolving political system.
This volume presents an overview
of current research on this topic, compromised of both theoretical and empirical studies.
Specifically, it addresses questions regarding the role of interest groups in formulating European
public polices at the European and the national level. What impact do interests groups have? What
determines their influence? What are the empirical and normative implications? By bringing together
contributions that approach these questions from different perspectives, the volume offers a
stimulating outlook that should inspire further research in the field. It is particularly relevant
for students of European integration and interest intermediation in comparative politics.
Contents
| Preface | ||
| Part I: Theoretical Perspectives | ||
| Arndt Wonka and Andreas Warntjen The Making of Public Policies in the European Union: Linking Theories of Formal Decision-making and Informal Interest Intermediation |
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| Volker Schneider State Theory, Governance and the Logic of Regulation and Administrative Control |
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| Madeleine O. Hosli, Andreas Nölke and Jan
Beyers Contending Political-Economy Perspectives on European Interest Group Activity |
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| B. Guy Peters Interest Groups and European Governance: A Normative Perspective |
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| Part II: Empirical Results | ||
| Amanda Sloat Governance in the Making: The Future of the EU's (Thought) Experiment |
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| Irina Michalowitz Lobbying as a Two-way Strategy: Interest Intermediation or Mutual Instrumentalisation? |
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| Christian H.C.A. Henning Modelling the Political Influence of Interest Groups: Theory and Empirical Evidence from European Agricultural Policy |
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| . | Christine Arnold and Paul Pennings Recent Developments in EU-level Social Policy-Making and Corporatist Governance |
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| Gerald Schneider and Konstantin
Baltz Specialization pays off: Interest Group Influence on EU Pre-negotiations in four Member States |
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| Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson The Impact of Trade Unions on Social Policy in EU Member States |
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| List ofContributors | ||
Christine Arnold, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Free University Amsterdam
Konstantin Baltz, Research Assistant at the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz
Jan Beyers, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Leiden University
Svante Ersson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Umea University
Christian H.C.A. Henning, Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Madeleine O. Hosli, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Leiden University
Jan-Erik Lane, Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Geneva
Irina Michalowitz, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Andreas Nölke, Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Free University Amsterdam
Paul Pennings, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Free University Amsterdam
B. Guy Peters, Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Gerald Schneider, Professor at the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz
Volker Schneider, Professor at the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz
Amanda Sloat, Research Fellow at the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen's University Belfast
Andreas Warntjen, Research Student at the Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science
Arndt Wonka, Research Student at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), University of Mannheim