Flawed methodology and assumptions behind claim that business is losing Brussels lobby wars | Corporate Europe Observatory

Flawed methodology and assumptions behind claim that business is losing Brussels lobby wars | Corporate Europe Observatory

Flawed methodology and assumptions behind claim that business is losing Brussels lobby wars

 Spare a thought for big business lobbyists in Brussels. According to a blog on the website of the London School of Economics,
they are supposedly “less successful than citizen groups at lobbying EU
legislators”. If only. The authors of the blog (academics Andreas Dür,
Patrick Bernhagen and David Marshall) make this claim off the back of their analysis
of 70 European Commission proposals introduced between 2008 and 2010,
which they say show business actors to be less able to achieve their
desired outcomes in EU legislative decisions. Let’s examine the main
assumptions, methodology, and findings from the blog to try to explain
how they could have gotten Brussels’ lobbying power picture so backward.