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The Expanding Core and Varying Degrees of Insiderness: Institutionalised Interest Group Access to Advisory Councils

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  • Bert Fraussen
  • Jan Beyers
  • Tom Donas

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type="main"> The interaction between organised interests and policy makers is an important ingredient of contemporary political systems. In earlier work, interest group scholars have distinguished groups that enjoy access to consultation arrangements from those that are bound to stand on the sideline. Frequently, these insiders are considered to be equally connected to public authorities. Yet their degree of ‘insiderness’ differs significantly. By unpacking the set of organised interests that have gained access, this article distinguishes core insiders from groups that occupy a more peripheral position in an interest intermediation system. Empirically, we demonstrate and explain varying degrees of insiderness in the community of insider groups in Belgium, using the extensiveness of representation in advisory bodies as a proxy for access. Our findings show that, although nowadays a diverse set of organised interests gets involved in policy-making processes, the inner circle is dominated by traditional economic interests.

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  • Bert Fraussen & Jan Beyers & Tom Donas, 2015. "The Expanding Core and Varying Degrees of Insiderness: Institutionalised Interest Group Access to Advisory Councils," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 63(3), pages 569-588, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:63:y:2015:i:3:p:569-588
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    1. Bert Fraussen & Adrià Albareda & Caelesta Braun, 2020. "Conceptualizing consultation approaches: identifying combinations of consultation tools and analyzing their implications for stakeholder diversity," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 53(3), pages 473-493, September.
    2. Pau Alarcón & José Luis Fernández-Martínez & Joan Font, 2020. "Comparing Environmental Advisory Councils: How They Work and Why it Matters," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-18, May.
    3. Adrià Albareda & Caelesta Braun & Bert Fraussen, 2023. "Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 56(2), pages 191-209, June.
    4. Albareda, Adrià & Fraussen, Bert, 2023. "The representative capacity of interest groups: explaining how issue features shape membership involvement when establishing policy positions," OSF Preprints dj54y, Center for Open Science.

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