Why is the EU so reliant upon exchanges with interest organisations?-What safeguards
have been developed to prevent capture by special interests, and how effective are these …

Consultations with stakeholders are a policy instrument widely used by policy makers to
design policies and prepare legislative proposals across national and supranational …

To design regulatory policies, agencies depend on information from the industries they are
tasked to regulate. Therefore, agencies can organise consultations with the aim of obtaining …

We advance a novel perspective to study how field actors co‐develop field governance
through continuous interactions. Field governance determines the formal and informal rules …

This paper introduces the updated version of our dataset, which is the third iteration of the
Decision-making in the European Union (DEU-III) dataset. We outline the DEU project …

The EU Commission regularly consults with external actors when preparing policy
proposals. This paper investigates possible bias in the voices the Commission listens to …

Evidence suggests that business lobbying shapes European Union (EU) border security
policies, but there has been no detailed empirical and theoretical work detailing how interest …

This contribution asks whether and why the newly political environment of EU law-making
impacts on the European Commission's choice (not) to announce the withdrawal of …

To facilitate stakeholder representation, European Union (EU) agencies use a range of
procedures, including closed consultation or advisory committees and open or public …

International institutions are often challenged for being detached from the citizens. Focusing
on the European Union, this article studies whether this is the case and, if so, when the …