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Images of the EU in EPA negotiations: Angel, demon - or just human?

Elgström, Ole - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 12

A striking feature of the discourses surrounding the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and developing states is the starkly contrasting pictures given of the role and nature of the EU. The Union is either portrayed as an angel, an actor with altruistic objectives,...

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Are EU Business Associations Governable?

Greenwood, Justin; Webster, Ruth - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 02

Business Interest Associations vary widely in their governability defined as their ability to unify members interests and ensure goal compliance. How can these variations be explained? To what extent is associational effectiveness governed by factors in the external environment of an association...

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Organized Interests in the EC and the European Parliament

Kohler-Koch, Beate - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 05

It is a truism that the emergent European polity contributes to the transformation of interest representation in Europe. It is, however, highly contested if a uniform system of interest intermediation is in the making and if so, what will be its shape. Pressures to adapt are quite strong, but...

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What drives interest group collaboration at the EU level? Evidence from the European environmental interest groups

Webster, Ruth - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 12

The paper examines patterns of interest group collaboration at the EU level and investigates factors with the potential to influence collaborative behaviour. Ideas from the literature on collective action, interest group coalitions, American and European interest representation and new...

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Lobbying for Justice? Organized Welfare in Germany under the Impact of Europeanization

Toens, Katrin - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 10 (2006) 09

The paper explores the impact of European integration on German welfare associations and their lobbying activities on … behalf of the poor. The first part describes the restrictions of lobbying in German welfare corporatism. It argues that the … use of the lobbying function is diminished due to the role of welfare associations to pacify rather than fuel political …

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A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Corporate Lobbying in the European Parliament

Bouwen, Pieter - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 12

lobbying behavior of business interests in the European Parliament. The theoretical framework tries to explain the degree of …

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Corporatist Governance and Europeanisation: No Future in the Multi-level Game?

Falkner, Gerda - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 06

This article argues that against all odds, the corporatist inclusion of the major societal interests in public decision-making is still a relevant governance mechanism in the European multi-level system. At the national level,a diversity of systems continues to operate. At least in some cases,...

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European social dialogue as multi-level governance: Towards more autonomy and new dependencies

Marginson, Paul; Keune, Maarten - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 16 (2012) 02

. Also it accords little attention to the role of power in the relationships involved. We draw on a multi …

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Ripples in a rising tide: Why some EU regions receive more structural funds than others

Bodenstein; Thilo; Kemmerling, Achim - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 16 (2012) 01

We investigate the distribution of European Union (EU) Structural Funds across EU regions. We draw from literature on the political economy of national intergovernmental grants and on the two-tiered bargaining process in the EU. Bargaining on the distribution of Structural Funds takes place on...

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A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Corporate Lobbying in the European Parliament

Bouwen, Pieter - 2004

lobbying behavior of business interests in the European Parliament. The theoretical framework tries to explain the degree of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074253

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