Lobbying as a collective enterprise: winners and losers of policy formulation in the European Union

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-76

  Klüver, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

European Commission; influence; interest groups; lobbying; lobbying success; quantitative text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870589050     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2012.699661     Document Type: Article

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