Preferring Rome to Brussels: Mapping Interest Group Europeanisation in Italy

Andrea Pritoni

South European Society and Politics, 2019, vol. 24, issue 4, 441-462

Abstract: How much do Italian interest groups undertake their advocacy/lobbying activities at the EU level? How often have groups gained access to different EU level institutions? This paper presents an original conceptualisation for the concept of ‘interest group Europeanisation’, which takes into account both the percentage of EU lobbying and access to EU institutions, and assesses the role of national centrality (i.e. access to national institutional venues and self-perceived influence in national policy-making) in determining whether there is more or less interest group Europeanisation. Original data from a national survey conducted on around 500 Italian interest groups are provided. Groups that are at the core of the national interest system are less likely to undertake a large part of their lobbying activities at the EU level, but more likely to gain EU access.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1728958

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