Information or context : what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists?

Bernhagen, PatrickDür, AndreasMarshall, David2017-08-192017-08-192015Bernhagen, P, Dür, A & Marshall, D 2015, 'Information or context : what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists?', Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 570-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.10085561350-1763http://hdl.handle.net/2164/9174ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Dominic Pakull for research assistance and Joost Berkhout, Jan Beyers, Caelesta Braun and Heike Klu¨ver for helpful comments on earlier versions of this contribution. Without the many respondents in the European Commission that were willing to be interviewed, this research would not have been possible. We also acknowledge financial support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), project number I 576-G16. This research is part of the INTEREURO project (http://www.intereuro.eu).18237877engEU Commissioninformationinstitutionalcontextlobbyingpolicy communitiesspatial analysisJ Political ScienceJInformation or context : what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists?Journal article10.1080/13501763.2015.1008556224