Jan Beyers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.Caelesta Braun is Assistant Professor in the School of Governance at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.Heike Klüver is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

• 1. Legislative lobbying in context: towards a conceptual framework of interest group lobbying in the European Union 2. Interest organizations across economic sectors: explaining interest group density in the European Union 3. Framing in context: how interest groups employ framing to lobby the European Commission 4. ‘Try to see it my way!’ Frame congruence between lobbyists and European Commission officials 5. Institutions, policies, and arguments: context and strategy in EU policy framing 6. The alignment of parties and interest groups in EU legislative politics. A tale of two different worlds? 7. Comparing the domestic and the EU lobbying context: perceived agenda-setting influence in the multi-level system of the European Union 8. Information or context: what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists?

Jan Beyers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.Caelesta Braun is Assistant Professor in the School of Governance at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.Heike Klüver is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

• 1. Legislative lobbying in context: towards a conceptual framework of interest group lobbying in the European Union 2. Interest organizations across economic sectors: explaining interest group density in the European Union 3. Framing in context: how interest groups employ framing to lobby the European Commission 4. ‘Try to see it my way!’ Frame congruence between lobbyists and European Commission officials 5. Institutions, policies, and arguments: context and strategy in EU policy framing 6. The alignment of parties and interest groups in EU legislative politics. A tale of two different worlds? 7. Comparing the domestic and the EU lobbying context: perceived agenda-setting influence in the multi-level system of the European Union 8. Information or context: what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists?

Jan Beyers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.Caelesta Braun is Assistant Professor in the School of Governance at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.Heike Klüver is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

• 1. Legislative lobbying in context: towards a conceptual framework of interest group lobbying in the European Union 2. Interest organizations across economic sectors: explaining interest group density in the European Union 3. Framing in context: how interest groups employ framing to lobby the European Commission 4. ‘Try to see it my way!’ Frame congruence between lobbyists and European Commission officials 5. Institutions, policies, and arguments: context and strategy in EU policy framing 6. The alignment of parties and interest groups in EU legislative politics. A tale of two different worlds? 7. Comparing the domestic and the EU lobbying context: perceived agenda-setting influence in the multi-level system of the European Union 8. Information or context: what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists?