Role of Interest Groups in the Decision Making Process of the European

At present, there are approximately 3,000 polar engagement collections that are formally recognized by the European juncture (Kirchner 2011). These sideline groups make for a variety of enkindles and vary in the enumerate of influence that they actually have on the policy making process. These groups represent the interest of multiple sectors of both social and economic life at heart the European mating. Interests range from AGRICULTURE to BIG BUSINESS to HUMANITARIAN AID. In a truly pluralist nature, these groups are competing, either directly or indirectly, with individually one another to have an influence in the legislation that is produced by the European conjunction. It is without a doubt that these interest groups within the European Union play an important part of the decision-making process. The blossoming interest group residential area within the European Union has both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the representative quality of the European l egislative process. By providing a background knowledge of interest groups and their influence in the decision-making process and comparing the role of interest groups within the European Union to those within the unify States I lead demonstrate the positive and negative qualities of interest group participation in the democratic process. In this paper, I will argue that interest groups are indeed a double-edged sword in affecting the democratic quality of European Union legislation. Before this topic can be adequately addressed, I believe that it is necessary to clarify a frequent translation of an interest group. For purposes of this paper, I will refer to Rainer Eisings definition of an interest group, because I have found it to be the most august and relevant towards the argument being do in thi... ... of interest group lobbying far exceeds the negative however the negative implications are of huge importance. victorious the current status of the full-fledged role of interest groups within the United States as a comparison to the nascent status of interest groups within the European Union, one can see the hazards of not addressing the negative discrepancies. It is my decision that the improvement of the democratic deficit as demonstrated by the interest groups thus far in the Union has proved the importance of interest group lobbying. Given this, I believe it is essential for attempts to be made by the European Union to mitigate the detrimental effects of semipolitical lobbying to ensure optimum democratic legitimacy into the future. The fact remains that at present, interest groups are seriously enhancing the democratic quality of European Union legislation.