Lobbying in Hostile Environments: A Comparative Perspective

Abstract

Interest groups are operating in increasingly polarized and hostile environments not only in new but also in long-lived democracies. This panel aims to bring new perspectives on how governments constrain the political activities of groups, as well as interest groups’ responses and their lobbying strategies in the context of growing illiberalism. Papers in this panel investigate the drivers behind contentious civil society restrictions passed by mainstream governing parties in the UK and France, the use of civil society discourse as a tool for new cleavage creation by populist governments in Poland, Hungary and Israel, the lobbying strategies of LGBTQ+ groups in EU countries and determinants of inter-group cooperation in post-communist countries.

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The polity, population and organizational level determinants of inter-group cooperation	View Paper Details
The role of civil society in political cleavage formation under the populist rule: The Hungarian, Polish, and Israeli case	View Paper Details
When Mainstream Parties Push for Civil Society Restrictions: Towards Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies?	View Paper Details