Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver

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Heike Klüver erforscht, wie politische Parteien, Interessengruppen und Wähler in demokratischen Systemen miteinander interagieren und Einfluss auf Politikgestaltung nehmen. Sie entwickelt Methoden zur Messung von Lobbying-Erfolg und Parteiresponsivität und untersucht, wie Populismus, Koalitionen und gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit demokratische Prozesse prägen. Ihre Expertise ist für Organisationen relevant, die verstehen möchten, wie politische Entscheidungen entstehen und wie man Einfluss auf Politikprozesse ausüben kann.

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Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver

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Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

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Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Politisches Verhalten im Vergleich

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• Die Rolle von Politikinhalten: Verteilungsgewinne in Koaliationsverhandlungen in West- und Osteuropa

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 11/2016 - 03/2018 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver

• Electoral trade-offs in post-industrial societies

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  Förderer: ESB: Berlin University Alliance Zeitraum: 07/2023 - 06/2026 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver, Tarik Abou-Chadi

• EU: Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies: A European Research Infrastructure (OPTED)

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  Förderer: Horizon 2020: Research and Innovation Action (RIA) Zeitraum: 10/2020 - 09/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver

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• Lobbying in the European Union

  2013

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 396 Zitationen · DOI

  Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining interest group influence. Understanding lobbying success should be of particular concern to scholars of European politics since the European Union constitutes a promising political opportunity structure for organized interests. This book sheds light on the impact of interest groups on European policy-making and makes a major contribution to the study of both European Union politics and interest groups more generally. Klüver develops a comprehensive theoretical model for understanding lobbying success and presents an extensive empirical analysis of interest group influence on policy-making in the EU. The book relies on a large, new, and innovative dataset that combines a wide variety of data sources including a quantitative text analysis of European Commission consultations, an online survey of interest groups, information gathered on interest group websites, and legislative data retrieved from EU databases. This book analyzes interest group influence across 56 policy issues and 2,696 interest groups and shows that lobbying is an exchange relationship in which the European institutions trade influence for information, citizen support, and economic power. Importantly, this book demonstrates that it is not sufficient to solely focus on individual interest groups, but that it is crucial how interest groups come together in issue-specific lobbying coalitions. Lobbying is a collective enterprise in which information supply, citizen support, and economic power of entire lobbying coalitions are decisive for lobbying success.

• Who Responds? Voters, Parties and Issue Attention

  2014

  British Journal of Political Science · 257 Zitationen · DOI

  Do parties listen to their voters? This article addresses this important question by moving beyond position congruence to explore whether parties respond to voters’ issue priorities. It argues that political parties respond to voters in their election manifestos, but that their responsiveness varies across different party types: namely, that large parties are more responsive to voters’ policy priorities, while government parties listen less to voters’ issue demands. The study also posits that niche parties are not generally more responsive to voter demands, but that they are more responsive to the concerns of their supporters in their owned issue areas. To test these theoretical expectations, the study combines data from the Comparative Manifestos Project with data on voters’ policy priorities from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and various national election studies across eighteen European democracies in sixty-three elections from 1972–2011. Our findings have important implications for understanding political representation and democratic linkage.

• Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis

  2009

  European Union Politics · 226 Zitationen · DOI

  The analysis of interest group influence is crucial in order to explain policy outcomes and to assess the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. However, owing to methodological difficulties in operationalizing influence, only few have studied it. This article therefore proposes a new approach to the measurement of influence, drawing on quantitative text analysis. By comparing interest groups’ policy positions with the final policy output, one can draw conclusions about the winners and losers of the decision-making process. In order to examine the applicability of text analysis, a case study is presented comparing hand-coding, WORDSCORES and Wordfish. The results correlate highly and text analysis proves to be a powerful tool to measure interest groups’ policy positions, paving the way for the large-scale analysis of interest group influence.

• Audencia Business School

  EU: Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies: A European Research Infrastructure (OPTED)

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• Centre for Social Sciences - Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence

  EU: Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies: A European Research Infrastructure (OPTED)

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• Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

  EXC 2055: Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)

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