In Search of Access: A Case-Study of Subnational Interests Access to the Institutions of the EU
(2009) STVM01 20091Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Lobbying within the European Union is an everyday occurrence that provides officers and politicians with information for policy-making and gives organized interests a chance to represent their views. This thesis focuses on subnational interests experienced amount of access to the three major institutions in the EU; the Commission, the Parliament and the Council.
The purpose of this thesis is to test if the ‘Logic of Access’, a theory developed to explain business interests access to the institutions of the EU, also could be used to explain subnational interests experienced access to the EU and to achieve new insights. In addition, three other theories are looked upon to supplement the analyzing of the case and to better explain the... (More) - Lobbying within the European Union is an everyday occurrence that provides officers and politicians with information for policy-making and gives organized interests a chance to represent their views. This thesis focuses on subnational interests experienced amount of access to the three major institutions in the EU; the Commission, the Parliament and the Council.
The purpose of this thesis is to test if the ‘Logic of Access’, a theory developed to explain business interests access to the institutions of the EU, also could be used to explain subnational interests experienced access to the EU and to achieve new insights. In addition, three other theories are looked upon to supplement the analyzing of the case and to better explain the results. By conducting interviews and a questionnaire with actors associated with subnational interests, as well as reviewing literature within the area of subject, initial hypotheses to the study will be answered.
The results imply that the Logic of Access provide good explanation of the experienced level of access but that more research is needed to establish the relationship between organizational form and information supplied when subnational interests is the case study. (Less)
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- author
- Carvajal, David LU
- supervisor
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- Bo Bjurulf LU
- organization
- course
- STVM01 20091
- year
- 2009
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- subnational interests, access, lobbying, European Union, Brussels offices
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1405448
- date added to LUP
- 2009-06-23 09:25:07
- date last changed
- 2009-06-23 09:25:07
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abstract = {{Lobbying within the European Union is an everyday occurrence that provides officers and politicians with information for policy-making and gives organized interests a chance to represent their views. This thesis focuses on subnational interests experienced amount of access to the three major institutions in the EU; the Commission, the Parliament and the Council.
The purpose of this thesis is to test if the ‘Logic of Access’, a theory developed to explain business interests access to the institutions of the EU, also could be used to explain subnational interests experienced access to the EU and to achieve new insights. In addition, three other theories are looked upon to supplement the analyzing of the case and to better explain the results. By conducting interviews and a questionnaire with actors associated with subnational interests, as well as reviewing literature within the area of subject, initial hypotheses to the study will be answered.
The results imply that the Logic of Access provide good explanation of the experienced level of access but that more research is needed to establish the relationship between organizational form and information supplied when subnational interests is the case study.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{In Search of Access: A Case-Study of Subnational Interests Access to the Institutions of the EU}},
year = {{2009}},
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