Rainer Eising is Professor of Comparative Politics and Policy Analysis at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He has published widely on EU policy-making, interest intermediation, and European governance including most recently The Politics of Interests in Europe: Lessons from EU Studies and Comparative Politics, and The Transformation of Governance in the European Union (also published by Routledge).

• 1. Introduction 2. State-Business Relations in the EU Member States 3. The Evolution of the EU Interest Group System: To Join or Not To Join? 4. Multi-Level Governance and Business Interests in the European Union 5. The Europeanization of Interest Groups and Interest Intermediation 6. The Politics of Access in the European Union I: Towards Elite Pluralism? 7. The Politics of Access in the European Union II: Towards a Theory of Interest Group Access

Rainer Eising is Professor of Comparative Politics and Policy Analysis at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He has published widely on EU policy-making, interest intermediation, and European governance including most recently The Politics of Interests in Europe: Lessons from EU Studies and Comparative Politics, and The Transformation of Governance in the European Union (also published by Routledge).

• 1. Introduction 2. State-Business Relations in the EU Member States 3. The Evolution of the EU Interest Group System: To Join or Not To Join? 4. Multi-Level Governance and Business Interests in the European Union 5. The Europeanization of Interest Groups and Interest Intermediation 6. The Politics of Access in the European Union I: Towards Elite Pluralism? 7. The Politics of Access in the European Union II: Towards a Theory of Interest Group Access

Rainer Eising is Professor of Comparative Politics and Policy Analysis at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He has published widely on EU policy-making, interest intermediation, and European governance including most recently The Politics of Interests in Europe: Lessons from EU Studies and Comparative Politics, and The Transformation of Governance in the European Union (also published by Routledge).

• 1. Introduction 2. State-Business Relations in the EU Member States 3. The Evolution of the EU Interest Group System: To Join or Not To Join? 4. Multi-Level Governance and Business Interests in the European Union 5. The Europeanization of Interest Groups and Interest Intermediation 6. The Politics of Access in the European Union I: Towards Elite Pluralism? 7. The Politics of Access in the European Union II: Towards a Theory of Interest Group Access