National Interest Organizations in the Eu Multilevel System by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138614741
Google: V7kEugEACAAJ
Goodreads: 40981403
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Appendix

Table A1. Definitions and descriptive statistics of variables (N = 59).

Table A2. Logit regressions for experimental variables with bootstrapped standard errors.

Table A3. Attributes of bootstrap regressions.

The multilevel interest representation of national business associations

Beate Kohler-Koch, Peter Kotzian and Christine Quittkat

ABSTRACT The role of interest groups in EU policy-making has been widely researched, but findings are still inconclusive. With regard to national business interest associations (BIAs), it is generally acknowledged that they have adopted a multilevel strategy in the course of EU integration. Yet there is little empirical knowledge as to how much attention they devote to national compared to EU institutions, how this varies between different levels of responsibility and which features of BIAs allow for access. Based on a large new dataset of BIAs from France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom, this article tests hypotheses derived from an exchange model of interest intermediation. The analysis shows that BIAs with high financial resources, BIAs with a high level of representativeness and multisectoral BIAs have the highest probability of access, whereas the economic importance of the represented sector has no relevance, not even for access to elected political actors, be they national or European.

This contribution puts the focus on the representation of national business interests in EU policy-making. It analyses the activities of national-level business interest associations (BIAs) among the range of potential advocates, as these are still the main interlocutors of EU and national institutions despite growing activities of individual firms and consultancies in EU lobbying (Bernhagen and Mitchell 2009; Coen 2009; Vannoni 2013).

While it is widely acknowledged that national-level BIAs pursue a multilevel strategy in EU lobbying, there is little empirical knowledge as to how much attention they devote to national compared to EU institutions and how their activities vary between different levels of responsibility, such as between the top level and the working level of an institution. To contribute to filling this gap, our study tackles the question of which factors foster access to policymaking institutions: are the associations’ financial resources or rather the economic importance of the represented sector the prime predictor for access? How important are other, so far neglected, organisational properties, such as the size of the sectoral domain and the representativeness of the association?

In recent years, a number of research projects have looked more closely at the lobbying activities of national interest groups in the EU’s multilevel system (for example Beyers and Kerremans 2012; Dür and Mateo 2016; Eising et al. 2017). The comparative analysis of BIAs, non-governmental organisations, professional organisations or trade unions has demonstrated the importance of group type in explaining associational behaviour, whereas results concerning the effect of differences in the endowment with material resources are still inconclusive, particularly in the light of the systematic correlations that exist between group type and availability of resources. By concentrating our analysis on one specific kind of interest group, employing a most similar cases research design and examining other organisational properties in addition to material resources, our findings will help to clarify and resolve this discussion.

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