Symposium: The new politics of security and defence in Europe: national and EU perspectives

The research project “Lobbying (A)symmetry: The Dynamics Behind Informed Policy” (LOBBYMETRY) led by Associate Professor Wiebke Marie Junk (Department of P

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The literature on lobbying coalitions has explored the choice of interest organizations to cooperate with others in a series of correlational studies. Yet, considerable diversity in cooperation activ...

For decades, political scientists have struggled to provide empirical evidence that lobbying influences policymaking. A considerable gap arose between widespread public suspicions of lobbying and the ...

EU’s revisionsret anbefaler at styrke kontrollen med, om ngo’er, der modtager EU-støtte, overholder unionens værdier. Men det er en farlig vej at gå, som i sidste ende kan risikere at svække civilsamf...

20 to 26 July 2025 at the University of Bremen

For decades, political scientists have struggled to provide empirical evidence that lobbying influences policymaking. A considerable gap arose between widespread public suspicions of lobbying and the ...

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From space junk gel to hologram surgery, the team had lots of intriguing predictions. Which, if any, came true?

Im neu gewählten EU-Parlament haben viele Politiker hohe Nebenverdienste. Abgeordnete aus Österreich landen dabei aber nur im Mittelfeld

The ability to mobilise public opinion is central to interest group politics. Yet, whether and how groups succeed in swaying the public remains inconclusive. The article assesses this by conducting...

The disadvantages experienced by minorities and lack of societal remedies are partly attributable to native-majority citizens’ limited awareness of minority hardships. We investigate whether informin...

Published in Journal of European Public Policy (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Lobbyismen er ikke længere forbeholdt de store interesseorganisationer. I løbet af de seneste år er public affairs-branchen steget eksplosivt. Konsekvenserne af dette kender vi endnu ikke En af de stø

This forum article provides an overview of the sampling and survey design of the publicly available InterCov dataset. The two-wave cross-country survey includes...

This article focuses on the access that interest groups secure to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). It examines whether and how interest group access is influenced by the socio-demographic...