Interest mediation through consultation networks and advisory committees

Abstract

The panel asks the questions, how biased participation at open consultations procedures is and whether it is indeed open to citizens or accessible mostly by organized interests, if consultation networks differ across public administrations, and what micro-and macro-level factors explain the access of interest groups to policy-makers. Further, we look at advisory committees as venues via which members of the executive and societal stakeholders interact on regular bases, exchanging technical and political information on specific policy problems. However, there is not much systematic comparative empirical research about how such committees operate, which representatives of private interests actually participate and how biased such systems of interest representation are.

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