Information or context: what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists?

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 570-587

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EU Commission; information; institutional context; lobbying; policy communities; spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924262644     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2015.1008556     Document Type: Article

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