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Maria Albrecht - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Interregionale Gewerkschaftsraete: Transnationale Orientierung und Interessenvermittlung von Gewerkschaften (Interregional trade union councils: Transnational orientation and Interest Intermediation of trade unions)
The German Journal of Industrial Relations, 2014Co-Authors: Holger Baehr, Maria AlbrechtAbstract:Interregionale Gewerkschaftsraete sind eine spezifische Form der transnationalen Zusammenarbeit von Gewerkschaften. Ein Interregionaler Gewerkschaftsrat (IGR) ist sowohl ein kollektiver Akteur, der sich aus Gewerkschaftsdachverbaenden in einer Grenzregion zusammensetzt, als auch eine Form der Handlungskoordination, die die Zusammenarbeit zwischen diesen Gewerkschaftsbuenden strukturiert. Auf der Basis eines institutionalistischen Ansatzes wird gezeigt, dass IGRs zwei Funktionen erfuellen. Sie tragen zu einer gemeinsamen Orientierung der Gewerkschafterinnen und Gewerkschafter aus verschiedenen Nationalstaaten bei und vertreten die Interessen der Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer aus der Region. Mit ihren Funktionen der Orientierung und Interessenvermittlung sind die IGRs auf die transnationalen Raeume der Grenzregion und der Europaeischen Union ausgerichtet, weisen jedoch hinsichtlich der Handlungskoordination zwischen den Gewerkschaftsbuenden einen mittleren Grad der Transnationalisierung auf. Die beteiligten Gewerkschaftsbuende behalten ihre Eigenstaendigkeit und ihre kollektive Handlungsfaehigkeit im Rahmen des IGR bleibt begrenzt. (Interregional Trade Union Councils represent a specific form of transnational trade union co-operation. An Interregional Trade Union Council (IRTUC) is both a collective actor and a mode of interaction. As a collective actor, it is composed of trade unions in a cross-border region. As mode of interaction, it structures the co-operation between these trade unions. By applying an institutionalist framework, it is shown that IRTUCs fulfil two functions. They contribute to a common orientation of trade unionists from different nation states and represent the Interests of the employees of the region. As far as the functions of orientation and Interest Intermediation are concerned, IRTUCs are directed at the transnational areas of the cross-border region and the European Union. However, the co-operation between the trade unions in the cross-border region shows a moderate degree of transnationalisation. The trade unions involved keep their autonomy and their capacity for collective action within the IRTUC is restricted.)
Carlo Ruzza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social movements and the European Interest Intermediation of public Interest groups
Journal of European Integration, 2011Co-Authors: Carlo RuzzaAbstract:Abstract It is argued that, in the EU environment, social movements are important actors and acquire distinctive traits in terms of coalitional activities, inter-institutional relations, modes of financing, and representational activities. They put forward an often utopian vision of desirable policy changes that other non-state organizations and institutional activists can utilise as a negotiating standards, whilst recognising, however, that they may be unachievable. This role is appreciated by institutional activists — bureaucratic and political actors sympathetic to movements — who typically attempt to channel funds, legitimacy and visibility to social movement organizations, both for reasons of ideological congruence and to engage in processes of bureau-shaping and budget maximising from which they benefit. The relative absence of strong policy steering on the EU level enables them to do so to a larger extent than in national polities. This is however more likely to occur when there is a specific legal...
Edgar Grande - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Transnational cooperation and policy networks in European science policy-making
Research Policy, 1999Co-Authors: Edgar Grande, Anke PeschkeAbstract:Abstract In the last decades, a host of transnational organizations representing national universities, research organizations and industrial research have been established in Europe. This article gives an empirical account of the role of transnational organizations in European science and technology policy and of the policy networks established between these organizations and supranational institutions. The analysis shows that because of the strong horizontal and vertical segmentation of transnational cooperation and Interest Intermediation, science, industry and politics are only weakly linked in European S&T policy. If institutionalized links between the major actors and institutions from different social sub-systems are an indispensable property of an efficient system of innovation, these missing links must be considered a major obstacle for European S&T policy to be successful.
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The state and Interest groups in a framework of multi‐level decision‐making: The case of the European Union
Journal of European Public Policy, 1996Co-Authors: Edgar GrandeAbstract:Abstract After years of relative neglect, the role of private Interest groups in European policy‐making has attracted the attention of students of European integration once again. However, research on this subject suffers from the fact that the institutional peculiarities of the European Union, especially the integration of decision‐making levels, have not been taken into account sufficiently. The crucial question addressed in this article is how the European system of joint multi‐level decision‐making affects the power and influence of private Interest groups in European policy‐making. It argues that, as a consequence of the new institutional framework, the logics of influence between public and private actors may differ significantly from the patterns of Interest Intermediation in domestic policy‐making. Most Interesting in this context seems to be the ‘paradox of weakness’, i.e. the fact that public actors can increase their autonomy vis‐a‐vis private Interest groups as a consequence of their integrati...
Rainer Eising - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the political economy of state business relations in europe Interest mediation capitalism and eu policy making
2009Co-Authors: Rainer EisingAbstract:1. Introduction 2. State-Business Relations in the EU Member States 3. The Evolution of the EU Interest Group System: To Join or Not To Join? 4. Multi-Level Governance and Business Interests in the European Union 5. The Europeanization of Interest Groups and Interest Intermediation 6. The Politics of Access in the European Union I: Towards Elite Pluralism? 7. The Politics of Access in the European Union II: Towards a Theory of Interest Group Access
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Interest Groups and Social Movements
Europeanization, 2008Co-Authors: Rainer EisingAbstract:This chapter analyzes the Europeanization of Interest organizations and social movements. Emphasis will be placed on the strategies these collective actors have adopted to represent their Interests in the European Union (EU), on their influence in EU policy making, and on the EU effects on domestic Interest Intermediation. Even though organized Interests have been steady companions of European integration, the bulk of attention has always been devoted to EU-level Interest groups and Interest Intermediation (see Greenwood 2003a). Singling out the EU’s impact on domestic Interests has only recently began to receive attention so that the analysis of this topic is characterized by notable research gaps and important areas of controversy and ambiguity.
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Clientelism, Committees, Pluralism and Protests in the European Union: Matching Patterns?
West European Politics, 2008Co-Authors: Rainer EisingAbstract:Many efforts have been made to identify general patterns of Interest Intermediation in the EU, ranging from early studies about clientela relations to recent depictions of protest politics. This review covers studies that aim at cross-sectoral generalisations as well as analyses that are confined to specific sectors, policy areas, and issues. While many analyses are rooted in the debate on corporatism and pluralism, since the 1990s the conceptual range has extended to the study of policy networks and communities. More recent studies identify a simultaneous trend towards greater politicisation and institutionalisation of EU Interest Intermediation. Altogether, this literature has yielded inconclusive results. It is unclear whether the EU is marked by cross-sectoral patterns or whether it is more meaningful to focus on policy areas or sectors as units of observation. The discussion suggests that part of the controversy surrounding these findings stems from problems inherent in the typological logic that fra...
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The access of business Interests to European Union institutions: notes towards a theory
2005Co-Authors: Rainer EisingAbstract:The unequal access of Interest organizations to the EU institutions is often associated with biased European politics. Nonetheless, systematic accounts of Interest group access are rare. Rooted in the organizational theory of resource dependencies and drawing on a survey of 800 EU and national business associations, the article presents a broad conception of European political exchange to explain the contact patterns. Ordinal regressions indicate that three dimensions shape these patterns – organizational characteristics, sectoral-economic features, and national modes of Interest Intermediation. Nonetheless, EU Interest Intermediation displays only very few general traits – these are the division of labor among EU and national associations, the economic clout, the financial resources and the expertise of Interest groups as well as their political mobilization when they face of EU regulation. Else, the interaction patterns vary along the EU institutions and their levels of decision-making underscoring the importance of the institutional opportunity structure.
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Germany, Europe, and the Politics of Constraint - Interest Groups: Opportunity Structures and Governance Capacity
Germany Europe and the Politics of Constraint, 2003Co-Authors: Rainer EisingAbstract:This chapter looks at continuity and change among German Interest groups and patterns of Interest Intermediation in the context of European integration. In other words, it analyses the Europeanization of Interest Intermediation. While several analysts regard the degree of fit between the EU and the German mode of Interest Intermediation as a decisive influence on the responses of these groups to European integration, it is argued that it is mainly organizational capacities that explain Interest group strategies in the EU multi-level system. The argument is tested in the following steps. First, the chapter provides an overview of the EU and the German systems of Interest groups, of the prevalent modes of Interest Intermediation, and of associational self-regulation at both levels. Based on survey data of German, British, French, and EU business associations, as well as large firms, the general strategies of German Interest groups in the EU are outlined. Next, a cluster analysis serves to distinguish five types of Interest groups according to their access to political institutions, their access to information from these institutions, and their political activities during the policy cycle: niche organizations, occasional (national) players, (national) traditionalists, EU players, and multilevel players. The results confirm the implications of the ‘capacity’ hypothesis: in general, the changes in the institutional opportunity structure have not led to a major reshuffling of the domestic power structure or to a transformation of the weakly corporatist mode of Interest Intermediation in Germany.
Michèle Knodt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Functional and territorial Interest representation in the EU
2014Co-Authors: Michèle Knodt, Christine Quittkat, Justin GreenwoodAbstract:1. Introduction: Territorial and Functional Interest Representation in EU-Governance, Michele Knodt. 2. The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU, Simona Piattoni. 3. Collaboration and Consultation: Functional Representation in EU Stakeholder Dialogues, Holly Jarman. 4. Lobbying via Consultation - Territorial and Functional Interests in the Commission's Consultation Regime, Christine Quittkat. 5. Strategies of territorial and functional Interests: Towards a model of European Interest Intermediation?, Michele Knodt. 6. Actors of the Common Interest? The Brussels Offices of the Regionsm, Justin Greenwood. 7. Social Movements and the European Interest Intermediation of Public Interest Groups, Carlo Ruzza. 8. Interests, Influence and Information: Comparing the Influence of Interest Groups in the European Union, Adam Chalmers. 9. The impact of national business cultures on large-firm lobbying in the European Union: Evidence from a large-scale survey of Government Affairs Managers, Andrew Barron. 10. Weakness as precondition of smooth integration? Representation strategies of functional Interest groups from new member states at the EU level, Heiko Pleines.
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Strategies of Territorial and Functional Interests: Towards a Model of European Interest Intermediation?
Journal of European Integration, 2011Co-Authors: Michèle KnodtAbstract:Abstract Research on Interest representation in EU governance has addressed different kinds of actors in somewhat different and independent discourses. This contribution will start from the specific requirements is demanding as well as opportunities the European multi-level system is offering to territorial and functional Interest representation. The main question will be whether differentiations or similarities can be found in the comparison of functional and territorial Interest representation. The contribution will elaborate on this question in the following section and assume that there are more similarities than differences within the use of strategies by territorial and functional Interests. The contribution elaborates two explanations for the similarities and differences found. Empirical evidence is given in the second part of the contribution. It will be shown that we even find convergence within territorial and functional Interest Intermediation and how actors have learned from each other. In add...