- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Institutions and the Evolution of European Democracy
- 2 National Courts and Community Law
- 3 On Studying Governments
- 4 What Is New About Governance and Why Does It Matter?
- 5 Executives in Comparative Context
- 6 The Political System of the European Union
- 7 Dismantling and Rebuilding the Weberian State
- 8 The Age of Administrative Reforms
- 9 The European Administration: Between Europeanization and Domestication
- 10 Europeanization and the Persistence of Administrative Systems
- 11 The Decline of Party?
- 12 Comparing Economic Interest Organizations
- 13 Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy
- 14 Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States
- 15 From Popular Dissatisfaction to Populism: Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Corruption
- 16 Democratizations in the European Periphery
- 17 The Politics of Regulation and European Regulatory Institutions
- 18 From Industrial Policy to a Regulatory State: Contrasting Institutional Change in Britain and France
- 19 Monetary Policy and the Euro
- 20 Recasting European Welfare States
- 21 The Changing European State
- 22 The Changing European State: Pressures from Within
- 23 International Relations, International Institutions, and the European State
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy
Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy
- Chapter:
- (p.208) 13 Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy
- Source:
- Governing Europe
- Author(s):
Sonia Mazey
Jeremy Richardson
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The chapter first discusses the logic of lobbying of the European Commission by interest groups. The rest of the discussion is divided into three parts. The first section highlights the organizational and cultural characteristics of the Commission bureaucracy and the implications of these characteristics for groups seeking to develop effective lobbying strategies. The second section examines in detail recent attempts by the Commission to structure and institutionalize interest group consultation; this analysis highlights the increasing importance of both ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ consultative structures. The concluding section briefly considers the utility and limitations of group pluralism within the Commission and asks whether the neo–functionalist predictions have, in the event, turned out to be surprisingly accurate.
Keywords: bureaucracy, consultative structures, European Commission bureaucracy, European Commission, group pluralism, institutionalization, interest group consultation, interest groups, lobbying strategies, lobbying, pluralism
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Institutions and the Evolution of European Democracy
- 2 National Courts and Community Law
- 3 On Studying Governments
- 4 What Is New About Governance and Why Does It Matter?
- 5 Executives in Comparative Context
- 6 The Political System of the European Union
- 7 Dismantling and Rebuilding the Weberian State
- 8 The Age of Administrative Reforms
- 9 The European Administration: Between Europeanization and Domestication
- 10 Europeanization and the Persistence of Administrative Systems
- 11 The Decline of Party?
- 12 Comparing Economic Interest Organizations
- 13 Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy
- 14 Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States
- 15 From Popular Dissatisfaction to Populism: Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Corruption
- 16 Democratizations in the European Periphery
- 17 The Politics of Regulation and European Regulatory Institutions
- 18 From Industrial Policy to a Regulatory State: Contrasting Institutional Change in Britain and France
- 19 Monetary Policy and the Euro
- 20 Recasting European Welfare States
- 21 The Changing European State
- 22 The Changing European State: Pressures from Within
- 23 International Relations, International Institutions, and the European State
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
