Interest Group Organisation in the European Union - How Internal Organisational Structures Shape Interest Group Agency

List of contents

1. An Introduction to the Private Life of Groups 2. To Have or not to Have a European Affairs Department? 3. To Include or not to Include Members in Decision-Making? 4. Research Design, Case Selection, Methods and Data Collection 5. Coordinating European Affairs Activity Internally: The Empirical Analysis of Groups’ Horizontal Organisation 6. Reaching an Organisational Decision in European Affairs: The Empirical Analysis of Groups’ Vertical Organisation 7. Four Organisational Types 8. Conclusion

About the author

Michelle Hollman is a researcher at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences of the University of Bremen, Germany.

Summary

By analysing their intraorganisational structures, this book explains how groups prepare to become active in the European Union and why we observe contact, conflict and cooperation of interest groups and other political actors in the European arena.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Hollman, Michelle (University of Bremen Hollman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780815372349
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7234-9
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics; Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political activism, Political structure & processes, EU (European Union), International institutions, Political structure and processes, EU & European institutions, Political activism / Political engagement