Although EU institutions and policies create additional opportunities for national interest groups to influence policy-making, not all domestic interest groups make use of the extended niche that is provided by the EU. Lagging Europeanization has often been explained by resource-based accounts, i.e. the wealth of interest groups determines their ability to Europeanize. This article explores an ...

While political parties provide a key channel for representation, organised interests can also be an important mechanism. A valid question is whether system of interest groups capable ensuring the representation variety public and private interests. Addressing this conundrum requires data that map essential traits in given country, including their number (density) types (diversity). This articl...

The relationship between poverty and transgenic agricultural crops has created a global rift in development studies. Some, but not all, questions in this debate should be amenable to empirical treatment. Field studies have generated divergent numbers on yields and other agronomic outcomes. Studies from India come to diametrically opposed findings about Bt cotton: either the technology is scale-...

STUDY QUESTION What are female-partnered and single mothers' motivations and experiences at one donor insemination (DI) program with regard to contacting other families who share the same sperm donor? SUMMARY ANSWER By and large, women reported seeking contact to obtain (i) support for their children and/or themselves, and (ii) information about shared traits and medical problems, ultimately ...

Pressure on doctors to keep up with technology can be a pain, but it’s nothing new. For John Macintyre, it was not just a pleasure but an all consuming passion. Macintyre had an astonishingly inventive mind, making some of the earliest sound recordings of the great singers and actors of the late Victorian era. He had humble origins, born the son of a tailor in Glasgow’s High Street in 1857. He ...