The determinants of direct corporate lobbying in the EU: A multi-dimensional proxy of corporate lobbying

Vannoni, Matia

doi:10.1057/iga.2012.16

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“…This finding furnishes theoretical support to a similar empirical finding by Vannoni (2013). Specifically, Vannoni (2013) uncovers a negative and statistically significant (at the 1% level) relationship between industry concentration and "direct lobbying" by the industry -for firms in the European Union.…”

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Lobbying: Buying and Utilizing Access

Mayer

Mujumdar

2014

Economics

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This paper develops a lobbying-by-firms model that draws on a more realistic characterization of the lobbying process; influence-seeking requires both money to 'buy access' and managerial time to 'utilize access'. This, more realistically grounded, modeling approach furnishes theoretical support for why one encounters different numbers of lobbying firms of varying sizes in different industries, without casting the (unrealistic) lifeline of the 'money-buyspolicies' assumption or (unrealistically) casting out the role of money from the lobbying process. Theoretical legs are also furnished for the empirical finding of a negative and statistically significant (at the 1% level) relationship between industry concentration and "direct lobbying" by the industry. Additional insights emerge from the model regarding how a cap on the lobbying-contributions of firms results, in fact, in an expansion of the amount of access-time purchased by some firms, and how a decline in the world price of an industry's good can generate greater inequality in access to politicians. JEL H0 F16 L1

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Lobbying: Buying and Utilizing Access

Mayer

Mujumdar

2014

Economics

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“…We also analyze the impact of the economic sector on the level of access. Vannoni (2012) hypothesized that the different weight of economic sectors in direct lobbying due to the Olsonian argument attributes access to industry concentration. In a different way, in this research, we suggest that the participation of various sectors is related to policy agenda setting.…”

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Corporate political strategies in Europe: The determinants of firms' access to the European Commission

Alves¹

2019

Bus. Polit.

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Corporate political strategies have been used extensively by firms attempting to shape their political environments. In this context, access to targeted policymakers is essential to allow their deployment. Thus, we propose to study the determinants of access to the European Commission representatives. This research builds on the resource-based view (RBV) of firms to argue that political knowledge is a valuable resource to increase firms' degree of access to the European Commission. To test our hypotheses, we built a novel dataset merging firms characteristics with lobbying meetings information, and analyze it through negative binomial regression. The results suggest the importance of political knowledge, emphasizing that it may represent a source of sustainable competitive advantage. This study highlights interesting information that broadens the understanding of corporate political strategies in the European Union.

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“…However, the power asymmetries and value differences that exist within the international networks create limits for transnational cooperation among organized interest groups (Rohrschneider and Dalton 2002, p. 510). This evolution may be perceived as a strategy of conscious adaptation to the dynamics of EU institutions' "interest overload" or as a normal reaction to the current phase of interest group population (Vannoni 2013). Other findings indicate that the differences between OI approaches can be, to some extent, attributed to the organizational character or policy area.…”

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Analyzing varieties of (post-enlargement) Europeanization in CEE advocacy organizations across policy fields

Czarnecki

Riedel

2021

Int Groups Adv

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This article aims to explain Europeanization processes among advocacy organizations from four post-communist states-Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic-which have been subject to strong Europeanization pressures before and after the European Union accession. The authors aim to identify how Central and Eastern European organized interests have adapted their organizational logics to a changing environment in the post-enlargement phase. Specifically, we address the following questions: How do various levels and dimensions of Europeanization of interest organizations differ across policy fields and countries and what determines this diversity? What are the strongest predictors of the specific forms of Europeanization? Against this background, we test how the specific characteristics of CEE advocacy organizations correlate with the different dimensions of Europeanization-its intensity, ways of occurring, variants, determinants, and outcomes. Keywords Europeanization • Central and Eastern Europe • Advocacy • Organized interestsThis paper has been prepared with the support of a research Grant entitled "The Missing Link -Orgnized Interests in Post-Communist Policy Making" / "Zorganizowane grupy interesów jako »brakujące ogniwo« w kreowaniu polityk w wybranych krajach postkomunistycznych" (OrgIntCEE). Projekt DFG-NCN Narodowe Centrum Nauki, decision nr 2016/23/G/HS5/01001.

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The determinants of direct corporate lobbying in the EU: A multi-dimensional proxy of corporate lobbying

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Lobbying: Buying and Utilizing Access

Lobbying: Buying and Utilizing Access

Corporate political strategies in Europe: The determinants of firms' access to the European Commission

Analyzing varieties of (post-enlargement) Europeanization in CEE advocacy organizations across policy fields

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