This book seeks to understand the role of interest groups in the policy process from agenda-setting to implementation in the EU. In looking at 20 years of change, the book captures processes of institutional and actor learning, professionalisation of lobbying, and the possible e…
Seeking to understand the role of interest groups in the policy process from agenda-setting to implementation in the EU, this book contains details of processes of institutional and actor learning, professionalisation of lobbying, and the possible emergence of a distinct EU publ…
It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades. There is now a dense EU interest group system. This entirely new volume, inspired by Mazey & Richardson's 1993 book Lobbying in the European Community, seeks to understand the …