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Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ras-10.1177_00208523211018781 for Administrative convergence in the United Nations system? Patterns of administrative reform in four United Nations organizations over time by Stephan Grohs and Daniel Rasch in International Review of Administrative Sciences

The article addresses the bias in interest representation within the EU by examining the lobbying strategies of national interest organisations within the EU’s multilevel political system. Both our theoretical framework, which includes the determinants of a national interest organisation's decision to act at the EU level, and the data analysis from the INTEREURO Multi-Level Governance Module (MLG) (www.intereuro.eu) reveal three main findings. Firstly, the greatest differentiation among interest organisations (IOs) appears to be between those IOs from the older member states (Germany, the UK and the Netherlands), which exhibit above-average levels of activity, and those from the newer EU member states (Sweden, Slovenia), which exhibit below-average levels of activity. Secondly, the variations in IO activity levels are much greater from country to country than from one policy field to another. Thirdly, although the IOs from all five countries in our study are more likely to employ media and publishing strategies (information politics) than to mobilise their members and supporters (protest politics), we can still observe national patterns in their selection of strategies and in the intensity of their instrumentalisation.

Članek z raziskovanjem lobističnih strategij nacionalnih interesnih organizacij v okviru mnogoravenskega političnega sistema EU opozarja na popačenost interesnega predstavništva v okviru EU. Tako teoretski okvir o določnicah odločitve nacionalnih interesnih organizacij (IO), da delujejo na ravni EU, kot tudi analiza podatkov projekta INTEREURO Multi-Level Governance Module (MLG) (www.intereuro.eu) razkrivata tri ključne ugotovitve. Prvič, največje razlike med interesnimi organizacijami nastajajo med IO iz starejših članic EU (Nemčije, Združenega kraljestva in Nizozemske), kar se kaže v njihovi nadpovprečni aktivnosti, ter IO iz novejših članic EU (Švedske in Slovenije), ki so podpovprečno aktivne na ravni EU. Drugič, razlike med ravnmi aktivnosti IO med različnimi javnopolitičnimi področji so manjše kot razlike med državami. Tretjič, čeprav IO iz vseh držav uporabljajo medije in strategije objavljanja (informacijsko politiko) pogosteje kot mobilizacijo svojih članov in podpornikov (protestno politiko), lahko vendarle opazimo nacionalne vzorce pri izbiri strategij IO in v intenzivnosti uporabe teh strategij.

Studies of framing in the EU political system are still a rarity and they suffer from a lack of systematic empirical analysis. Addressing this gap, we ask if institutional and policy contexts intertwined with the strategic side of framing can explain the number and types of frames employed by different stakeholders. We use a computer-assisted manual content analysis and develop a fourfold typology of frames to study the frames that were prevalent in the debates on four EU policy proposals within financial market regulation and environmental policy at the EU level and in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The main empirical finding is that both contexts and strategies exert a significant impact on the number and types of frames in EU policy debates. In conceptual terms, the article contributes to developing more fine-grained tools for studying frames and their underlying dimensions.