Interest Groups’ Success, Influence, & Power in Different Stages of the Policy-Making Process

Abstract

The conditions under which interest groups successfully influence policymakers is one of the most intriguing questions of interest groups research, posing conceptual and methodological challenges. The papers in this panel tackle the questions of success, influence and power by applying novel conceptual and theoretical lenses and diverse methodological strategies. Specifically, the papers theorise different patterns of success across the agenda-setting and policy formulation stages, the role of structural and contextual factors in accounting for interest groups’ influence, conceptualizing influence as a price set by demand- and supply-curves generated by exogenous shocks (e.g., the COVID-19 crisis), and finally, theorising the differences in perceived expertise effectiveness of groups in the legislative arenas.

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Lobbying from agenda-setting to policy formulation: two logics of interest group success?	View Paper Details
Competing Interest Coalitions and Lobbying in the EU-led Financialization of Housing: A Bayesian Process-tracing Analysis	View Paper Details
What makes expertise effective? A comparative analysis of attributed influence in Polish and German parliaments	View Paper Details
A friend in need is a friend in deed? The market for political information under stress: lobbyist-policy-maker exchange under Covid	View Paper Details