Brendan J. Carroll

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.