The contextual nature of lobbying: Explaining lobbying success in the European Union

Heike Klüver

European Union Politics, 2011, vol. 12, issue 4, 483-506

Abstract: Why are some interest groups able to lobby political decisions successfully whereas others are not? This article suggests that the issue context is an important source of variation because it can facilitate or hamper the ability of interest groups to lobby decision-makers successfully. In order to test the effect of issue characteristics, this article draws on a new, unprecedented data set of interest group lobbying in the European Union. Using quantitative text analysis to analyse Commission consultations, this article studies lobbying success across 2696 interest groups and 56 policy issues. The findings indicate that lobbying success indeed varies with the issue context, depending on the relative size of lobbying coalitions and the salience of policy issues, whereas individual group characteristics do not exhibit any systematic effect.

Keywords: European Union; influence and success; interest groups; lobbying; lobbying coalitions; quantitative text analysis; salience; Wordfish (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/1465116511413163

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