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This title examines how interest groups, political parties, and public benefit organisations are legally regulated in 19 democracies. It it develops and empirically examines a new interdisciplinary theory on why democracies adopt permissive or constraining regulation of civil society organisations.

Pressure groups. --- Public interest groups. --- Citizens' watchdog groups --- PIRGs (Public interest groups) --- Public interest lobbying groups --- Public interest research groups --- Watchdog groups, Citizens' --- Pressure groups --- Advocacy groups --- Interest groups --- Political interest groups --- Special interest groups (Pressure groups) --- Functional representation --- Political science --- Representative government and representation --- Lobbying --- Policy networks --- Political action committees --- Social control

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"Which civil society organizations (CSOs) contribute to democracy, how and why? Organized civil society including interest groups, political parties and service-oriented associations is traditionally considered a cornerstone of democracy. Their potential to contribute to democracy is more often than not treated as a given. Nevertheless, individual CSOs' readiness and ability to serve as venues for participation, vehicles of democratic representation or indeed both at the same time have remained a matter of on-going debate across different social science disciplines. Prominent notions such as 'NGOization' and 'cartelization' have problematized CSOs' and parties' increasing state dependency, professionalization and bureaucratization, shifting organizational priorities away from societal values towards instrumentally driven self-maintenance, supposedly diminishing their contribution to democratic governance. This study argues that two contrasting governance templates - the 'voluntary association' and the 'professionalized voluntary organization' - allow theorizing fundamental trade-offs shaping CSOs' ability to simultaneously 'perform' on three dimensions central to their democratic contributions: participation, representation and societal responsiveness. The study's theoretical framework is examined across four European democracies (Germany, Norway, Switzerland, UK) by combining the analysis of survey data with qualitative case studies of individual organizations' evolution over several decades"--

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Over the past decades, governments have increasingly been confronted with problems that transcend their boundaries. A multitude of policy fields are affected, including environment, trade and security. Responding to the challenges triggered by Europeanization and globalization, governments increasingly interact across different spheres of authority. Both theoretically and empirically, the puzzle of institutional choice reflected by the variety of arrangements in whichintergovernmental cooperation takes place inside individual countries and across their borders remains surprisingly under-explor

Federal government. --- Central-local government relations. --- Decentralization in government. --- Comparative government. --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Centralization in government --- Devolution in government --- Government centralization --- Government decentralization --- Government devolution --- Central-local government relations --- Federal government --- Local government --- Public administration --- Center-periphery government relations --- Local-central government relations --- Local government-central government relations --- Decentralization in government --- Division of powers --- Federal-provincial relations --- Federal-state relations --- Federal systems --- Federalism --- Powers, Division of --- Provincial-federal relations --- State-federal relations --- Law and legislation