Representing interests in the European Union

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Tables and Figures = ⅴ
• List of Abbreviations = xii
• List of Directorates-General = xix
• Acknowledgements = xx
• 1 Introduction = 1
• The variety of interests in Europe = 2
• Groups = 3
• Lobbyists = 5
• The operational resources of groups = 9
• What is at stake in Europe? = 11
• Low politics, high politics = 13
• Insider groups and status = 15
• Indispensability and insider status = 16
• Models of resource exchange = 20
• 'Policies make politics' = 23
• Ideas, norms and socialisation = 24
• Conclusions = 25
• 2 EU Decision-Making and Channels of Influence = 27
• European-level interest representation through the national route = 31
• European-level interest representation through the Brussels strategy = 33
• The national route and the Brussels Strategy assessed = 50
• Conclusion = 55
• 3 The Nature and Resources of Groups = 57
• Weak Euro groups? = 61
• Inter-group relations; federations and direct-member organisations = 71
• The associability of interests at the European level = 74
• 4 The Regulation of Interest Representation = 80
• The Galle report = 82
• The Commission initiatives and self-regulation = 83
• The Ford report = 90
• 5 Business Interests = 101
• Business groups = 102
• Cross-sectoral organisation of business interests = 103
• Sectoral organisation of business interests = 121
• Large firms as single and coalition actors in European public affairs = 125
• 6 Professional Interests = 133
• Peak associations claiming representation of professionals = 134
• European-level sectoral professional interests = 143
• The future of professional interest representation in Europe = 152
• 7 Labour Interests = 155
• The European organisation of labour interests = 159
• Conclusions = 173
• 8 Public Interests = 177
• Environmental interests = 180
• Environmental public-interest groups = 185
• Consumer interests = 193
• Social interests = 204
• Conclusions = 216
• 9 Territorial Interests = 218
• A 'Europe of the Regions'? = 218
• The organisation of territorial public interests at the European level
• 10 Conclusions: Interests and European Integration = 242
• Interests and neofunctionalist accounts of integration = 243
• International relations ideas and the challenge of large firms as political actors = 247
• A revised neofunctionalism? = 250
• Interests and the integration process = 254
• Interests, integration and the role of the European institutions = 261
• Capacities and collective action in European-level interest representation = 265
• The future role of interests in integration theory = 269
• Bibliography = 271
• Index = 287