Territorial Interests in the European Union

Abstract

An increasingly cumulative and comparative literature has developed on interest representation questions within the European arena (Berkhout and Lowery, 2008, 2011; Beyers, 2002, 2004; Beyers, Eising, and Maloney, 2008; Beyers and Kerremans, 2007; Dür, 2008a; Eising, 2004, 2007, 2008). Such literature provides useful insights on issues such as multi-level venue-shopping (Beyers and Kerremans, 2010), the determinants of mobilisation tout court (Bernhagen and Mitchell, 2009; Poloni-Staudinger, 2008), of mobilisation breadth (Halpin and Binderkrantz, 2011) and mobilisation success (Dür, 2008b; Klüver, 2009, 2011; Mahoney, 2007). In this literature, less attention has been paid to the expression of territorial interests within the EU. Some research, though, has dealt with mobilisation conditions and pre-conditions, channels and objectives (Blatter, Kreutzer, Rentl, and Thiele, 2008, 2009; Hooghe, 1995; Hooghe and Marks, 1996, 2001; Jeffery, 2000, 1997; Keating and Hooghe, 2006; Marks, Haesly, and Mbaye, 2002; Marks, Nielsen, Ray, and Salk, 1996). This panel welcomes papers seeking to either re-investigate claims made by past literature or explore new avenues of research. Recent research avenues have included (but have not been limited to): networking and interaction patterns between territorial players in their mobilisation effort, the determinants of territorial mobilisation success/influence, the evolving role of the Committee of the Regions, or the issue of the definition and aggregation of the territorial “interest”. This panel welcomes theory-driven empirical research, be it using qualitative or quantitative means. 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