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    Die Bürger, die Parteien und die Demokratie in Westeuropa
    (1994) Gabriel, Oscar W.
    Gegenstand dieses Beitrages war die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Wort des Jahres 1992, der Politikverdrossenheit. Nur eine relativ kleine Minderheit unter den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern Deutschlands, Frankreichs, Italiens und der Niederlande fühlt sich den Parteien verbunden, und die ohnehin schwachen Bindungen haben sich während der letzten Jahre weiter gelockert. Zwar besteht in allen vier Ländern allenfalls eine schwache und zumeist inkonsistente Beziehung zwischen den Parteibindungen und den Einstellungen zur Demokratie, doch ist das systemkritische Potential in allen vier Ländern vor allem in der Gruppe der Befragten ohne Parteibindung auszumachen.
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    Shop till you drop? : venue choices of business and non-business interests in the European Union
    (2020) Pakull, Dominic; Marshall, David; Bernhagen, Patrick
    The EU offers a variety of access points through which interest groups can attempt to influence policy-making. In this paper, we analyze differences in the use of these access points, or venues, by interest groups. Considering the roles played by different EU institutions along the policy cycle, we argue that the venues differ by the extent to which they encourage lobbying from different interest groups. Analyzing survey responses by more than 700 European interest associations, we find that the distribution of access-seeking by business and non-business actors differs across venues. Reflecting its pivotal role at the pre-proposal stage, the Commission encourages non-business organizations to spend much of their finite lobbying resources. In the context of the European Parliament, non-business groups are not only interested in influencing its decisions, but also in connecting to ordinary Members of the European Parliament. Business groups, for their part, apply greater resources to the rapporteurs. Finally, we show that business groups also allocate their resources to regulatory agencies at the implementation stage in the policy process, where incomplete legislative contracts are finalized and non-business groups’ resources are depleted.
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    Beyond lobbying : the political determinants of adopting corporate social responsibility frameworks in the European Union and the USA
    (2022) Bernhagen, Patrick; Kollman, Kelly; Patsiurko, Natalka
    This paper explores the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an element in a corporation’s political action repertoire. Previous research has studied lobbying and CSR as a distinct means by which corporations seek to manage their non-market environment. Analyzing CSR as a political activity, we argue that corporations engage in CSR for the same reasons that prompt them to engage in lobbying. More specifically, we expect corporations to adopt CSR frameworks that are suitable to enhance their reputation in a given political arena. To evaluate this argument, we analyze the lobbying and CSR behavior in the EU and USA of over 2000 corporations from around the world. Our results show that lobbying and adopting CSR frameworks can be predicted by similar empirical models. Moreover, controlling for common predictors and endogeneity, lobbying in the EU is associated with an increased likelihood of a corporation adopting an appropriate CSR framework. However, corporations that lobby in Washington DC become less likely to engage in CSR the more they spend on lobbying. These findings shed new light on the relationship between lobbying and CSR while highlighting important differences in corporate non-market behavior across political arenas.