Configurations of Lobbying Strategies: A New Conceptual Outlook?

Abstract

There has been extensive research on the lobbying strategies of interest groups in the past decades. The papers in this panel attempt to provide a new theoretical or conceptual view on the configurations of strategies that different groups use. They do so by theorising the effect of policy complexity and group resources on lobbying strategies, conceptualizing notices of industrial action (threat of conflict) as an important contemporary pressure strategy of trade unions and employers associations, conceptualizing a portfolio of strategies of public interest groups based on the logic of support, influence, and reputation, and assessing if access bias is cumulative across political arenas.

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Sitting in or speaking out? The effect of policy complexity and group resources on lobbying strategies	View Paper Details
Conceptualizing public interest advocacy for long-term policy change: The NGOs’ lob-bying strategy portfolio of expertise, campaigns, membership, and platform types	View Paper Details
Lobbying government, parliament, and the media: The access of organized interests to political arenas in Germany	View Paper Details
Threat as a form of interest group pressure: How do unions and employers’ organizations use notice of industrial action?	View Paper Details