Lobbying Brussels : interest groups' demands and networks in EU Environmental policy

Abstract

This thesis examines interest groups' partieipation in environmental policymaking in the European Union. It investigates two fundamental questions that are essential to understanding the EU's policymaking system: first, what policy demands do interest groups put forward and how are these demands related to each other? And second, under what conditions and in what ways are interest groups policy demands integrated into the policymaking process and translated into policy outputs?