Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making The "Missing Link"

• Main Authors: Dobbins, Michael, Riedel, Rafał
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; Multiple Funders; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: advocacy; Book Industry Communication; Central and Eastern Europe; Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies; civil society; Comparative Politics; corporatism; Eastern European Politics; Education, Higher; Education, Higher > Europe, Eastern > Government policy > Case studies; European; European Politics; Europeanization; Former communist countries > Case studies; interest groups; Medical care > Europe, Eastern > Government policy > Case studies; Medical policy; Medical policy > Europe, Eastern > Case studies; Nonfiction; organized interests; policy-making; political access; political influence; Political Lobbying & Interest Groups; Political Parties; Political parties and party platforms; Political Process; Political Science; Politics; Politics & government; Politics and government; post-communism; Power resources; Power resources > Europe, Eastern > Government policy > Case studies; Public interest groups; Public interest groups > Europe, Eastern > Case studies; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Society & social sciences; Society and Social Sciences; World; Diffuse Interest Groups; Post-communist Democracies; Interest Group Populations; Vice Versa; Organized Interests; Civil Society; Dense; Czech Higher Education; Mining Trade Unions; Nonexclusive Public Goods; EU Energy; Energy Sources; EU Climate; Government Bodies; Interest Intermediation Systems; EU Interest Group; Democratic Backsliding; EU Fund; Energy Policy; Cee Country; Interest Intermediation; Political Parties; Diffuse Interests; EU Organization; Interest Group Type
• ISBN: 9780367502188; 9780367502201; 0367502208; 0367502186; 1000391116; 9781000391114; 1003049567; 9781003049562; 1000391140; 9781000391145
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003049562

This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country and cross-policy comparative analyses. Featuring interdisciplinary research, the book draws together recent developments in the evolution of post-communist advocacy organizations, their population ecology dynamics, interest intermediation, the influence of organized interests and their (bottom-up and top-down) Europeanization. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, interest groups and lobbying, post-communism, transition and consolidation studies, and more broadly to European studies/politics.