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Author:   Conor McGrath ,  Kevin Moloney ,  Conor McGrath
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773446939

ISBN 10:   0773446931
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   May 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Foreword by Dr. Kevin Moloney; Introduction - Conor McGrath; Part I: Western Europe; 1. Lobbying the EU: Between Strengthening Legitimacy and Increasing Transparency - Valeria Marziali; 2. From Opacity to Transparency?: The Place of Organized Interests within the European Institutions - Didier Chabanet; 3. Access, Influence and Accountability: Regulating Lobbying in the UK - Conor McGrath; 4. The Europeanization of Professional Interest Intermediation: National Trade Associations in a French-German Comparison - Christine Quittkat; 5. Welfare Lobbyists in Europe: The German Case - Katrin Toens; 6. We All Need Friends: Elite Alliances and the Activity Choices of Environmental Groups in the United Kingdom, France and Germany - Lori Poloni-Staudlinger; 7. Corporatism or Lobbyism Behind Dutch Dikes?: Interest Representation in the Netherlands - Caelesta Poppelars; Part II: Eastern Europe; 8. The Problems of Developing Interest Group Politics in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Learning from Lithuania - Ronald J. Hrebenar, Clive S. Thomas, Courtney H. McBeth and Bryson B. Morgan; 9. Interest Groups in Russia's Economic Transformation - Lynn D. Nelson and Irina Y. Kuzes; 10. Business Representation in Eastern Europe: The Failure of Corporatism? - Dnissa S. Duvanova; 11. The Changing Environment for Interest Representation and Lobbying in Croatia - Igor Vidacak; 12. Interests and Patterns of Participation: Secondary Legislation Drafting in Estonia - Annika Uudelepp; Index.

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"""The originality of this project stands out: it is to take readers into a wider range of lobbying locations than any other work to date... It will be a standard, international text on lobbying and interest groups for years to come."" - Prof. Kevin Moloney Bournemouth University ""... introduces the reader to the hitherto under-researched area of interest group politics in Eastern Europe as well as providing several excellent studies of the EU and major Western European nations."" - Prof. Ian Somerville University of Ulster"""

The originality of this project stands out: it is to take readers into a wider range of lobbying locations than any other work to date... It will be a standard, international text on lobbying and interest groups for years to come. - Prof. Kevin Moloney Bournemouth University ... introduces the reader to the hitherto under-researched area of interest group politics in Eastern Europe as well as providing several excellent studies of the EU and major Western European nations. - Prof. Ian Somerville University of Ulster

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