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The emergence of interest group politics is one of the decisive factors in democratic transformation in post-communist society. Stephen Padgett argues that evidence from eastern Germany suggests that market transition produces rather open and fluid societies, in which group interests and identities are tenuous. Lacking a supportive social infrastructure, interest groups operate on 'entrepreneurial' lines, a form of associational activity which falls far short of pluralist ideals. With its accelerated transition to a market economy, eastern Germany provides a 'fast-forward' study of an 'advanced post-communist society' which enables us to anticipate the social structures and issues shaping interest-group politics in the newly-democratizing states of east-central Europe. Examining a number of different interest groups, and comparing a number of countries across east-central Europe, this book may also offer a vision of the future of interest-group politics in the West.

Pressure groups --- Groupes de pression --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Pressure groups --- Groupes de pression --- #SBIB:324H44 --- Politieke structuren: drukkingsgroepen, lobbying

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I feel the need to enlighten the public on the way the European Union functions, or rather malfunctions. For most readers, this could come as a great shock : how can one imagine that the legislator no longer legislates and that he delegates his legislative power to obscure cenacles called "trilogues" ? Today, being a lobbyist is considered to be bad. A defender of business, of multinationals, of capitalism,... and by extension of pesticides, intensive agriculture and junk food. That is the image ! The aim of this book is not to correct this image, but to provide elements of appreciation and to give a form of objectivity to the debate. Daniel Guéguen is the longest serving EU lobbyist. He is the former head of the European sugar lobby and then of the European farmers unions. Now a consultant, he is at the heart of the lobbying issues that make the news.Longtime professor in the United States, notably at Georgetown and Harvard. Now at the College of Europe. Multi-author, editorialist, blogger, Daniel Guéguen remains a convinced pro-European, but fiercely critical of an opaque, bureaucratic and, to put it bluntly, anti-democratic system.

BPB9999 --- Lobbying --- Pressure groups --- Groupes de pression --- European Union --- Groupes d'intérêts et de pression (processus politique) --- Sociologie politique

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Le parcours politique de Jean Hennessy est original à plus d’un titre. Riche propriétaire d’une célèbre maison de négoce en cognac, héritier d’une dynastie politique conservatrice, il est l’un des principaux bailleurs de fonds du Cartel des gauches en 1924. Élu député de la Charente en 1910, il conserve son mandat sous cinq législatures avant d’achever sa carrière parlementaire dans les Alpes-Maritimes. Tour à tour patron de presse, ambassadeur, ministre, candidat à l’élection présidentielle de 1931, il navigue de la droite à la gauche puis de la gauche au centre, non sans avoir, à la tête du Parti social-national, flirté un temps avec l’extrême droite. En dépit de plusieurs opérations de reclassement sur l’échiquier politique, Jean Hennessy milite durant toute sa carrière en faveur de la réforme et de la modernisation de l’État. Il se fait par ailleurs, avant Jean Monnet et François Mitterrand, deux autres Charentais illustres, l’ardent propagandiste d’une Europe unie dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Ce cheminement atypique place sa biographie à la croisée de l’itinéraire individuel et du portrait de groupe, celui des milieux réformateurs et de leurs réseaux. L’auteur a ainsi tenté d’apporter, par un éclairage singulier, quelques réponses aux questions cruciales sur les rapports entre l’argent et le pouvoir, la presse et le politique, le poids des réseaux d’influence et des groupes de pression sous la Troisième République.

Hennessy, Jean, --- France --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- History --- Political Science --- argent (monnaie) --- pouvoir politique --- biographie --- régionalisme --- fédéralisme --- groupes de pression --- gouvernement

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Inspired by current debates around political confrontation and the exercise of power, Fabrizio Titone offers an interpretation based on the concept of disciplined dissent. This interpretation is centred on the notion of diffused power and is designed to transcend the binary distinction consensus/resistance. The aim is to identify the conservative process involved in mounting a critique, a protest, through which those who object may have intercepted and then deployed on their own account the cultural repertoire of those in a position of authority. This was with a view to obtaining a hearing, or even influencing the activities of the government and decentering the exercise of power. The essays collected here take as their theoretical point of departure the concept of disciplined dissent. In order to ascertain how adaptable the latter is, the decision was taken to include studies relating to wholly distinct political contexts. Contributions by scholars from different backgrounds shed light upon different circumstances prevailing in continental and non-continental medieval Europe. The aim is to offer a broad spectrum of analyses on political confrontation, the formulation of critiques and the attainment of spaces for participation by means of non-violent protest.--

Gewaltloser Widerstand. --- Protestbewegung. --- Dissenters --- Dissidents --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- History --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Conformity --- Opposition (science politique) --- Opposition (Political science) --- Groupes de pression --- Pressure groups --- Histoire. --- History.