TY  - CHAP
AU  - Berkhout, Joost
AU  - Hanegraaff, Marcel
AU  - Braun, Caelesta
AB  - The European Union interest group population is often characterised as being  biased towards business and detached from its constituency base. Many scholars  attribute this to institutional factors unique to the EU. Yet, assessing whether or  not the EU is indeed unique in this regard requires a comparative research design.  We compare the EU interest group population with those in four member states:  France, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. We diff erentiate system, policy  domain and organisational factors and examine their eff ects on interest group  diversity. Our results show that the EU interest system is not more biased towards  the representation of business interests than the other systems. Moreover, EU  interest organisations are not more detached from their constituents than those in  the studied countries. Everywhere, business interest associations seem to be better  capable of representing their members’ interests than civil society groups. These  fi ndings suggest that the EU is less of a sui generis system than commonly assumed  and imply the need for more fi ne-grained analyses of interest group diversity.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1001769
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1083014675
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28224
KW  - EU
KW  - level systems
KW  - organisations
KW  - diversity
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28224/1/9781138614741_oachapter8.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28224/1/9781138614741_oachapter8.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28224/1/9781138614741_oachapter8.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37571
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2018
TI  - Chapter 8 Is the EU different? : Comparing the diversity of national and EU-level systems of interest organisations
ER  - 
