1st Edition
Functional and Territorial Interest Representation in the EU
Despite a substantial legacy of literature on EU interest representation, there is no systematic analysis available on whether a European model of interest representation in EU governance is detectable across functional, and territorial, categories of actors. ‘Functional’ actors include associations for business interests, the professions, and trade unions, as well as ‘NGOs’ and social movements; territorial based entities include public actors (such as regional and local government), as well as actors primarily organised at territorial level. What are the similarities and differences between territorial, and functional, based entities, and are the similarities greater than the differences? Are the differences sufficient to justify the use of different analytical tools? Are the differences within these categories more significant than those across them? Is there a ‘professionalised European lobbying class’ across all actor types? Does national embeddedness make a difference? Which factors explain the success of actors to participate in European governance?
This book was originally published as special issue of Journal of European Integration.
1. Introduction: Territorial and Functional Interest Representation in EU-Governance, Michele Knodt, Professor, Institute of Political Science, Technical University Darmstadt.
2. The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU, Simona Piattoni, Professor of European Integration Politics, Dept. of Political Science, University of Innsbruck.
3. Collaboration and Consultation: Functional Representation in EU Stakeholder Dialogues, Holly Jarman, Assistant Professor, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York, Albany.
4. Lobbying via Consultation – Territorial and Functional Interests in the Commission’s Consultation Regime, Christine Quittkat, Researcher, Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim.
5. Strategies of territorial and functional interests: Towards a model of European interest intermediation?, Michele Knodt, Professor, Institute of Political Science, Technical University Darmstadt.
6. Actors of the Common Interest? The Brussels Offices of the Regionsm, Justin Greenwood, Professor of European Public Policy, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
7. Social Movements and the European Interest Intermediation of Public Interest Groups, Carlo Ruzza, Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, University of Leicester.
8. Interests, Influence and Information: Comparing the Influence of Interest Groups in the European Union, Adam Chalmers, Researcher, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
9. The impact of national business cultures on large-firm lobbying in the European Union: Evidence from a large-scale survey of Government Affairs Managers, Andrew Barron, Senior Lecturer in International Business, Department of Management, University of Strathclyde.
10. Weakness as precondition of smooth integration? Representation strategies of functional interest groups from new member states at the EU level, Heiko Pleines, Head of the Department of Politics and Economics at the Research Centre for East European Studies and Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Bremen.
Biography
Michèle Knodt is Jean Monnet Professor for European Integration and Comparative Politics at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.
Christine Quittkat is a Researcher at the Centre for European Social Research (MZES)/University of Mannheim, Germany.
Justin Greenwood is Professor of European Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.
