Interest Group Success in the European Union: When (and Why) Does Business Lose?

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 951-983

  Dür, Andreas ^a   Bernhagen, Patrick ^b   Marshall, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business and politics; European Union; interest groups; lobbying success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924225824     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414014565890     Document Type: Article

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