Lobbying in the European Community
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Lobbying in the European Community
(Nuffield European studies)
Oxford University Press, 1993
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Nuffield European Studies
Series editors: Joachim Jens Hesse and Vincent Wright
This series provides students and teachers in the social sciences and related disciplines with interdisciplinary and comparative works dealing with significant political, economic, legal, and social problems confronting European nation-states and the European Community. It will comprise both research monographs and the edited proceedings of conferences organized by the Centre for European Studies at Nuffield College, Oxford.
The role of interest groups in the formulation of EC policy is a central aspect of the development of the European Community. This book is unique in providing both an academic analysis of the system and an insider's view of how lobbying actually works.
The first part examines the consequences of the increasing transference of power to Brussels in terms of the EC policy process, the activities of the Commission of the EC as an `adolescent' bureaucracy, and the behaviour of interest associations at national and European level. Subsequent chapters look in detail at the wide range of interest groups involved in lobbying, including business, industry, the financial sector, and voluntary organizations.
The combination of contributions from academic specialists and practitioners, including Commission officials and interest group leaders, will make this book uniquely interesting as a study of a key area of the evolving European policy process.
Contributors: Lynn Collie, Martin Donnelly, Dick Eberlie, Wyn Grant, Brian Harvey, Robert Hull, Grant Jordan, Jeffrey Knight, Andrew McLaughlin, James Mitchell, Jean-Pierre Peckstadt, Jane Sargent
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The European lobbying process: introduction - transference of power, decision rules and rules of the game, S. Mazey and J. Richardson
- pressure groups and the EC - an overview, W. Grant
- the role of the National Civil Service and European lobbying - the British case, D. Spence
- the structure of the European Commission and the policy formation process, M. Donnelly. part 2 Sectoral Studies: Europe of the regions? territorial interests and European integration - the Scottish experience, S. Mazey and J. Mitchell
- the rationality of lobbying in Europe - why are Euro-groups so numerous and so weak? some evidence from the car industry, A. McLaughlin and G. Jordan
- groups and the process of European integration - the work of the federation of stock exchanges in the European Community, J. Knight et al
- defending and promoting a sectoral interest within the European Community - the case of the textile polyolefins industry, J.P. Peckstadt et al
- lobbying in Europe - the experience of voluntary organizations, B. Harvey
- the confederation of British industry and policy-making in the European Community, R. Eberlie
- business lobbying in the European Community - the union of industrial and employers' confederations of Europe, L. Collie
- the corporate benefits of lobbying - the British case and its relevance to the European Community, J. Sargent
- conclusion - a European policy style?, S. Mazey and J. Richardson.
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