Lobbying the European Union

David Coen is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at University College London (UCL). Prior to joining UCL he held appointments at the London Business School and Max Planck Institute in Cologne and was awarded a PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. In recent years he has been a Fulbright distinguished scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, and visiting fellow at Boston University, Nuffield College Oxford University, and Max Planck Institute, Bonn. He is the Chair of the International Political Studies Association (IPSA) Research Committee on Business and Government, a board member of the European Centre for Public Affairs, and a member of the editorial board of Business Strategy Review. He has held grants from the British Academy, European Union, Fulbright Foundation, London University and Anglo-German Foundation. His research is firmly embedded in the development of models and processes of EU public policy and regulatory reform.Jeremy Richardson has held chairs of Political Science at the Universities of Strathclyde, Warwick, Essex, and Oxford. He is a recognised authority in the fields of comparative public policy and the EU policy process and has published widely over a period of more than forty years. He founded The Journal of European Public Policy in 1992 and continues to edit the Journal, based at the National Centre for Research on Europe, at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He also remains an Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He was co-editor, with Sonia Mazey, of the very successful 1993 volume on Lobbying in the EC, of which this new volume is the successor.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Learning to Lobby the EU: 20 Years of Change. ; INSTITITUTIONAL DEMANDS ; 2. The European Commission: ; 3. The European Parliament: ; 4. Least accessible but not inaccessible: Lobbying the Council & the European Council ; 5. Interest Groups and the European Court of Justice ; 6. COREPER and National governments ; 7. The European Economic and Social Committee ; ACTOR SUPPLY ; 8. Business Lobbying in the European Union ; 9. NGOs as Gatekeepers ; SECTORAL STUDIES ; 10. Changing World of European Health Lobbies ; 11. Role of Interest Groups in Policy-making on the European Ban on Tobacco Advertising: An institutional Analysis. ; 12. Politics of Food: Agro-industry Lobbying in Brussels ; 13. Bargaining and Lobbying in the EU Social Policy. ; 14. Trade Policy Lobbying in the EU: Who Captured Whom? ; 15. Regulating Lobbying in the European Union. ; CONCLUSION ; 16. Institutionalizing and managing intermediation in the EU.

a comprehensive update of Mazey and Richardson's edited Lobbying in the European Community