Tag: Jan Beyers

Birds of a feather flock together: why EU party and interest group alignments reflect the left-right political cleavage

Birds of a feather flock together: why EU party and interest group alignments reflect the left-right political cleavage

The role of lobbying in the EU legislative process has been the subject of numerous studies, but to what extent do party political lines affect the nature of the relationship between interest groups and parties in the European Parliament? AsJan Beyers, Iskander De Bruycker and Inger Baller write, there is generally an expectation that business […]