Interest Groups and Politics
What's in a name? : the politics of naming ethnic groups in Kenya's Cherangany Hills
... the politics of names and naming among the Sengwer – Cherangany community from Kenya ’ s Cherangany ...marginalised groups ’ , and whether they should be called ‘ Sengwer ’ or ‘ Cherangany ’ ...
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The influence of interest groups in the European Parliament: does policy shape politics?
... about interest groups and MEPs' preferences, interest groups' lobbying activities, and their ability to shape the policy outcomes of the four cases ...to interest groups’ and ...
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School-based parents' groups - a politics of voice and representation?
... fostering participation among a greater number of potential actors - but they are not sufficient. Such groups will attract a limited number of people with the cultural resources and the inclination to attend. ...
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The politics of the EU immigration policy - The influence of pro-migration interest groups arguments on the European Union's immigration policy
... the interest of the member states and represents the national ...any interest group statement since they want to be a neutral partner and facilitator during the negotiations between the different member ...
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Critical Resource Dependencies and the Europeanization of Domestic Interest Groups
... domestic politics (especially in neo-corporatist countries such as Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands), they were barely named in the sources mentioned above (Beyers and Kerremans ...
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Political Cleavages and Interest Group Politics: A Comparative Analysis
... among interest groups which is often described as less political, less publicly visible and less aggressive compared to lobbying in the United States (US) (Mahoney ...EU interest groups – as ...
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The scope and patterns of mobilization and conflict in EU interest group politics
... business groups mobilize. But when both business and non-business groups mobilize, business takes more moderate positions and requests less major changes and is somewhat more likely to seek minor changes to ...
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Interest Groups, Lobbying And Polarization In The United States
... This account conforms to Lowi’s (1972) dictum that “policies drive politics.” Scholars have tested this theory over time in Congress. Jochim and Jones (2013) show that while many issues are on a single ...
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Interest Group Politics: Change and Continuity
... of interest groups is ...conceptualize interest group adaptation as a multilevel phenomenon, implying changes at the system level of associational orders (operationalized through social network anal- ...
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Double capture and de-democratisation: Interest group politics and Uganda's 'transport mafia'
... small groups forming, more along the lines of the motorcycle-taxi (boda-boda) sector, which as noted above has never been successfully organised at a city or nationwide scale (Goodfellow, ...
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Interest groups : moving beyond state centric models
... on interest groups is based on case studies or cross sectional examinations of collective ...an interest group, or indeed the field of ...other groups in society for the establishment, ...
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"Interest Groups in the Regions: Economic, Organizational, and Institutional Approaches"
... The decentralization experiments in Italy, France, and other countries have prompted political scientists to take a new look at regional government.16 Research on political decentralization is moving away from a ...
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Constitutional Change and Interest Group Politics: Ireland's Children's Rights Amendment
... and interest groups should be slow to pursue constitutional rights protection unless it is truly ...an interest group might feel the need to pursue protection at a constitutional level in spite of ...
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Politics in the Interest of Capital: A Not ‐So ‐Organized Combat
... US politics are unlikely candidates for comprehensive explanations in ...business groups are most ...in politics is strikingly different in all countries but the ...
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Communication by Interest Groups and the Organization of Lobbying
... of interest groups may not only reflect a huge diversity in their objectives, in their audiences and in the related economic issues at stake but it may also be more surely related to the structure of the ...
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The influence of domestic interest groups on the Dutch position on quantitative easing
... domestic interest groups, so that independent institutions such as central banks can also be included in the ...domestic groups will follow the line set by the ...domestic groups especially ...
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Interest groups and public opinion
... information. 48 The literature shows that the less knowledge one has the likelier it is that one changes opinions; logically this makes one more acceptant of both information and propaganda, and less able to distinguish ...
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The Effectiveness of the On-line Lobbying as of the Innovative Strategies of the American Interest Groups
... When using computer networks as a lobbying tool, the emphasis changed: professionalism of the lobbyist does not play the most important role, competition of ties and incen- tives gives the way to competition of ...
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Interest Groups and the Impossibility of Democratic Socialism: Hayek, Jewkes, and the Arrow Theorem
... particular groups, a majority can be formed only by buying the support of numerous special interests, through granting them such benefits at the expense of a ...
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Traffic Safety Policy in the European Union: The Role of Interest Groups
... and interest groups have all worked to make transportation in Europe safer, more efficient, and environmentally more “green,” serious issues remain for the EU and its member-states as it tries to reduce the ...
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