The Multiplex Network of EU Lobby Organizations.

ABSTRACT: The practice of lobbying in the interest of economic or social groups plays an important role in the policy making process of most economies. While no data is available at this stage to examine the success of lobbies in exerting influence on specific policy issues, we perform a first systematic multi-layer network analysis of a large lobby registry. Here we focus on the domains of finance and climate and we combine information on affiliation and client relations from the EU transparency register with information about shareholding and interlocking directorates of firms. We find that the network centrality of lobby organizations has no simple relation with their lobbying budget. Moreover, different layers of the multiplex network provide complementary information to characterize organizatio

SUBMITTER: Zeng A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5085054 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature