Who’s in and who’s out?: Explaining access to policymakers in Belgium. Fraussen, B. & Beyers, J. Acta Politica, 51(2):214--236, April, 2016. ![Who’s in and who’s out?: Explaining access to policymakers in Belgium [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex In most political systems, the community of policy insiders represents a small subset of the total interest group population. Therefore, one key question is which factors explain why some mobilized interests become insiders and others remain outsiders. By contrasting a bottom-up registration of interest groups with a top-down census of all groups that enjoy access to policymakers, we present a unique approach to distinguish insiders from outsiders. This approach allows us to systematically analyze which factors – such as resources, constituency, scale of organization and policy portfolio – predict who becomes a policy insider. Our analysis focuses on interest group politics in Belgium, and shows that next to resources, the size of the membership, the scale of organization and a group’s policy portfolio are strong predictors of the likelihood to gain access.
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title = {Who’s in and who’s out?: {Explaining} access to policymakers in {Belgium}},
volume = {51},
issn = {0001-6810},
shorttitle = {Who’s in and who’s out?},
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doi = {10.1057/ap.2015.9},
abstract = {In most political systems, the community of policy insiders represents a small subset of the total interest group population. Therefore, one key question is which factors explain why some mobilized interests become insiders and others remain outsiders. By contrasting a bottom-up registration of interest groups with a top-down census of all groups that enjoy access to policymakers, we present a unique approach to distinguish insiders from outsiders. This approach allows us to systematically analyze which factors – such as resources, constituency, scale of organization and policy portfolio – predict who becomes a policy insider. Our analysis focuses on interest group politics in Belgium, and shows that next to resources, the size of the membership, the scale of organization and a group’s policy portfolio are strong predictors of the likelihood to gain access.},
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urldate = {2016-04-15},
journal = {Acta Politica},
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year = {2016},
keywords = {Access, Belgium, corporatism, Federalism, interest groups, mobilization},
pages = {214--236},
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