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

Interest Groups
Agenda-Setting
Power
Influence
Policy-Making
PRA253
Ellis Aizenberg
Leiden University
Beth Leech
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Building: A - Faculty of Law, Floor: 2, Room: 213

Wednesday 08:30 - 10:15 CEST (06/09/2023)

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.

Title Details
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