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Brendan J. Carroll
Researcher at Leiden University
Publications - 15
Citations - 610
Brendan J. Carroll is an academic researcher from Leiden University. The author has contributed to research in topics: European union & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 15 publications receiving 429 citations.
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Determinants of Upper-Class Dominance in the Heavenly Chorus: Lessons from European Union Online Consultations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse a new dataset of participation in the European Commission's online consultations during the last ten years and compare it to the population of registered interests, and find that business dominance in consultations is even higher than in the registered groups.
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Defining and classifying interest groups
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared different approaches to defining and classifying interest groups with a sample of lobbying actors coded according to different coding schemes and found a closer link between group attributes and group type in narrower classification schemes based on group organizational characteristics than those based on a behavioral definition of lobbying.
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Representatives of the public?: public opinion and interest group activity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether groups mobilise on issues in policy areas that are regarded as salient by the public and found that higher rates of mobilisation are found on those issues that fall within policy areas and those with consequences for budgetary spending.
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Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors ask what can account for the variation in policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. But they do not address the problem of public policy response.
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Interest organizations across economic sectors: explaining interest group density in the European Union
Joost Berkhout,Brendan J. Carroll,Caelesta Braun,Adam William Chalmers,Tine Destrooper,David Lowery,Simon Otjes,Anne Rasmussen +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the density of interest organizations per economic sector in the European Union on the basis of political and economic institutional factors is analyzed, and it is shown that economic institutions structure the supply and demand for interest organizations by affecting the number of potential constituents, the resources available for lobbying and the geographical level of collective action of businesses.