Interest Groups and Experimentalist Governance in the EU

This book researches the role that interest groups play in new modes of EU governance, with a specific focus on the role of interest representation in experimentalist governance frameworks. The research asks how lobbying in the legislative process contributes to the governance framework and its institutional arrangements and subsequently asks how the relevant interest groups participate in policy implementation in which broad policy goals are concretised. The research is based on four in-depth case studies: the Industrial Emissions Directive, the General Data Protection Regulation, the Combating Child Abuse Directive, and the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision Directive. Of special interest in these cases are the balance between types of interest groups (most notably business and NGOs) in policy formulation and implementation, and the changing dynamics between interest groups and public policy-makers in such 'horizontal' governance. The book's findings are required reading for all those concerned with effective and democratic policy-making in the EU.

Researches the role that interest groups play in new modes of EU governance Focuses on the role of interest representation in experimentalist governance frameworks Asks how lobbying in the legislative process contributes to the governance framework and its institutional arrangements

Autorentext

Douwe Gijs Truijens is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests include policy-making processes in the EU, lobbying (or 'interest representation'), and theoretical and philosophical debates on democracy and democratic legitimacy. He is specialised in new modes of EU governance, and 'experimentalist governance' in particular, with a specific focus on the role of interest organisations and other non-state actors in such policy-making processes.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Interest representation in experimentalist governance: a theoretical framework.- 3. Studying the reciprocal interaction between experimentalism and lobbying: research design.- 4. Dual lobbying in the Industrial Emissions Directive.- 5. Do-It-Yourself Involvement in the European Data Protection Regulation.- 6. Combating child sexual abuse: implementing broad policy goals in an institutional void.- 7. Mobilisation by mistrust in EU pension funds regulation.- 8. Comparing four cases of lobbying for new modes of governance.- 9. Conclusion: new modes of lobbying for new modes of governance.- 10. Bibliography.