Does civil society mobilisation reduce socioeconomic bias in EU policy debate? A study by Evelien Willems, Iskander De Bruycker, and Marcel Hanegraaff reveals that active engagement by civil society o...

Interest groups and advocacy in a changing political context

A persistent challenge in democracies is unequal political representation, where citizens with higher socioeconomic status (SES) have a stronger voice than those with lower SES. While this disparit...

European Consortium for Political Research

This study examines the micro-level foundations of how policy responsiveness may come about. Our study builds on the assumption that elected officials' informat...

Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU