Research Bastiaan Redert

Abstract

Equal rights for and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people are an increasingly contentious political issue in Europe. This endangers the well-being of millions of LGBTQ+ people in the EU. Due to this threat, the role of LGBTQ+ organizations that defend and promote these rights is crucial. Yet, scholarship has a limited understanding of how these organizations are structured and what strategic interactions they have with policymakers or likeminded organizations to reach their (political) goals. Moreover, it is unclear how national context affects affect the strategies of LGBTQ+ organizations. This limited understanding is partly because LGBTQ+ organizations have so far mainly been approached as social movements. Instead, this project will approach these organizations as interest groups to theoretically and empirically analyze their organization and strategic behavior. Using this novel approach, the project asks: How do national contexts affect the organization and strategies of LGBTQ+ interest groups in the EUs member states? Its analyses will be based on three datasets on LGBTQ+ interest groups' organization and strategies in 6 European countries with varying hostility. Using quantitative methods and social network analysis, this project will 1) map and compare the organization of LGBTQ+ interest groups in those 6 countries, 2) determine the hostility towards LGBTQ+ rights in the 6 countries, and 3) model the effects of national contexts on interest groups' strategic interactions.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Meier Petra
• Fellow: Redert Bastiaan

Research team(s)

• Politics & Public Governance

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

In many EU member states powerful political actors increasingly fight against the proliferation of equal rights for LGBTQ+ people. This directly endangers the well-being of millions of LGBTQ+ people in the EU. Due to this threat, the role of LGBTQ+ organizations that defend and/or promote these rights is crucial. Yet, scholarship has a limited understanding of how these organizations are structured and how they navigate their strategic interactions with policymakers or likeminded organizations to reach their (political) goals. Moreover, it is unclear how national context affects the strategies of LGBTQ+ organizations. This limited understanding is partly because LGBTQ+ organizations have so far mainly been approached as social movements. Instead, this project will approach these organizations as interest groups to theoretically and empirically analyze their organization and strategic behavior. Using this novel approach, the project asks: How do national contexts affect the organization and strategies of LGBTQ+ interest groups in EU member states? Its analyses will be based on three datasets on LGBTQ+ interest groups' organization and strategies in 6 EU countries with varying degrees of hostility. Using quantitative methods and social network analysis, this project will 1) map and compare the organization of LGBTQ+ interest groups, 2) determine the hostility towards LGBTQ+ rights, and 3) model the effects of national contexts on interest groups' strategic interactions.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Meier Petra
• Fellow: Redert Bastiaan

Research team(s)

• Politics & Public Governance

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Dit project onderzoekt of en hoe EU-agentschappen hun interactie met belanghebbenden strategisch inzetten om hun gezag over de besluitvorming van hun belangrijkste principaal, de Europese Commissie, te vergroten. Het gezag van EU-agentschappen vloeit voort uit hun formele mandaat, maar ook uit hun reputatie. Een reputatie weerspiegelt hoe agentschappen worden gezien door en ingebed zijn in hun omgeving. De reputatie van EU-agentschappen is cruciaal voor hun vermogen om gezag te hebben, maar hun autoriteit staat steeds meer onder druk. We weten echter weinig over hoe EU-agentschappen hun reputatie en gezag proberen te vergroten en of deze strategieën effectief zijn. Dit project vult deze cruciale lacune in de literatuur en kijkt hoe verschillende aspecten van de interactie met belanghebbenden een invloed hebben op de autoriteit van EU agentschappen. Verder onderzoekt het project of EU-agentschappen ook hun autoriteit kunnen vergroten als beleid gepolitiseerd is. Terwijl autoriteit van agentschappen het meest wordt bedreigd in gepolitiseerde casussen, zou meer oplettendheid van principalen er in die casussen juist voor kunnen zorgen dat de agentschappen hier weinig aan kunnen doen. Dit project richt zich op het opzetten van de EU Principaal Agent Autoriteit (EUPAA) dataset. Deze dataset zal open access beschikbaar worden gesteld en daarom een impact hebben op het actieve veld van EU regulerend bestuur en bureaucratische politiek studies. Daarnaast vormt deze dataset een solide basis voor toekomstige projecten van de voorzienne promotor en anderen bij PPG.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Redert Bastiaan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project