Who’s in and who’s out?: Explaining access to policymakers in Belgium
In most political systems, the community of policy insiders represents a small subset of the total interest group population. Therefore, one key question is which factors explain why some mobilized interests become insiders and others remain outsiders. By contrasting a bottom-up registration of interest groups with a top-down census of all groups that enjoy access to policymakers, we present a unique approach to distinguish insiders from outsiders. This approach allows us to systematically analyze which factors-such as resources, constituency, scale of organization and policy portfolio-predict... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Journal article |
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Schlagwörter: | access / corporatism / federalism / Belgium / interest groups / mobilization |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26998205 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109783 |
In most political systems, the community of policy insiders represents a small subset of the total interest group population. Therefore, one key question is which factors explain why some mobilized interests become insiders and others remain outsiders. By contrasting a bottom-up registration of interest groups with a top-down census of all groups that enjoy access to policymakers, we present a unique approach to distinguish insiders from outsiders. This approach allows us to systematically analyze which factors-such as resources, constituency, scale of organization and policy portfolio-predict who becomes a policy insider. Our analysis focuses on interest group politics in Belgium, and shows that next to resources, the size of the membership, the scale of organization and a group's policy portfolio are strong predictors of the likelihood to gain access.