Conference Papers

Rødland, Lise, Elin H. Allern and Vibeke W. Hansen: “Negotiating Policy Support: Explaining Bias in Interest Group Influence on Legislative Party Groups”. Paper presented at EPSA’s 11th Annual Meeting 21-25 June and at the Virtual ECPR General Conference 30 August-3 September 2021.

Røed, Maiken, Elin H. Allern and Vibeke W. Hansen: “Party-Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence”, Paper presented at the Virtual ECPR General Conference 30 August-3 September 2021.

Allern, Elin H., Vibeke W. Hansen, Lise Rødland and Maiken Røed, with Tim Bale, Heike Klüver, Cal Le Gall, David Marshall, Simon Otjes, Thomas Poguntke, Anne Rasmussen, Sabine Saurugger, Paul Webb, and Christopher Witko (2020): Introducing the Party-Interest Group Relationships in Contemporary Democracies Datasets: The Ties That Bind?Paper presented at the Virtual ECPR General Conference, September 24-28, 2020.

Røed, Maiken: Interest Group Influence on Political Parties: The Role of Party Characteristics. Paper presented at the Virtual ECPR General Conference, September 24-28, 2020.

Allern, Elin H., Heike Klüver, David Marshall, Simon Otjes, Anne Rasmussen and Christopher Witko (2020): Policy Proximity, Power and Interest Group-Party Lobby Routines. Paper presented at the Virtual EPSA Annual Conference, June 18-19, 2020.

Elin H. Allern, Vibeke Wøien Hansen, David Marshall and Simon Otjes: Organizational Ties between Interest Groups and Political Parties: A Hierarchical Tale of Mutual Resource Provision?  Paper presented at the Annual EPSA conference in Vienna, Belfast, 20-22 June 2019, ECPR’s General Conference, Wroclaw, September 4-7, 2019. APSA’s 115th annual conference, Washington DC, August 29 – September 1, 2019.

Vibeke Wøien Hansen: Group interest and agenda setting dynamics: Explaining interest group position-taking across policy dimensions. Paper presented at the PAIRDEM mini-conference in Oslo, May 22-24 and at the Annual EPSA conference in Vienna,Belfast, 20-22 June 2019.

Elin H. Allern,  Vibeke W. Hansen, David Marshall, Anne Rasmussen and Paul Webb: Competition and Interaction: Explaining Parties’ Ties to Interest Groups in a Multidimensional Policy Space. Paper presented at the PAIRDEM mini-conference in Oslo, May 22-24, 2019.

Elin H. Allern, Vibeke W. Hansen, David Marshall, Simon Otjes Thomas Poguntke, and Sabine Saurugger: Conceptualizing and Measuring Party-Interest Group Relationships. Paper presented at the PAIRDEM mini-conference in Oslo, May 22-24, 2019.

Elin H. Allern, Heike Klüver, David Marshall, Simon Otjes, Anne Rasmussen, and Christopher Witko: Choosing an Agent: Why Do Interest Groups Establish Lobby Routines with Particular Parties? Paper presented at the PAIRDEM mini-conference in Oslo, May 22-24, 2019.

Maiken Røed: Party Reuse of Interest Group Input. Paper presented at the PAIRDEM mini-conference in Oslo, May 22-24, 2019.

Allern, Elin H., Vibeke Wøien Hansen, David Marshall, Thomas Poguntke, Anne Rasmussen and Paul D. Webb (2018): Parties’ Relational Ties to Interest Groups: The Role of Programmatic Party Competition. Paper presented at the Annual EPSA Conference in Vienna, 21-23 June 2018, ECPR General Conference in Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018and at APSA’s Annual Meeting, August 30-September 2, 2018.

Allern, Elin H., Heike Klüver, David Marshall, Simon Otjes, Anne Rasmussen and Christopher Witko (2018): The Formation of Party-Organized Interest Relationships: Bringing Ideology Back In. Paper presented ECPR General Conference in Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018 and at APSA’s Annual Meeting, August 30-September 2, 2018.

Allern, Elin H., Vibeke Wøien Hansen, David Marshall, Simon Otjes, Thomas Poguntke and Sabine Saurugger (2018): Conceptualizing and Measuring Party-Interest Group Relationships. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference in Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018.

Hansen, Vibeke Wøien (2018): From closely allied to frequent collaborators: Identifying patterns of party-group relationships in seven countries by using clustering analysis. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference in Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018.

Allern, Elin H., Vibeke Wøien Hansen, Simon Otjes and Maiken Røed (2018): Mostly about the Money? A Cross-national Study of Individual Parties’ Relations with Trade Unions in Twelve Western Democracies. Paper presented at the Annual Norwegian Political Science Conference, Bergen, 8-10 January 2018.

Røed, Maiken and Vibeke Wøien Hansen (2017): Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission’s Online Consultations: The strive for policy gain without too much pain. Paper presented at the EPSA Annual Conference in Brussels, June 23-25, 2016, and at ECPR General Conference, Oslo, 6-9 September 2017.

Allern, Elin H., Tim Bale, Simon Otjes and Anne Rasmussen (2017): Institutionalized Access to Government: Does Corporatism Affect Trade Union-Party Links? Paper presented at EPSA Annual Conference, Milan, 21-24 June and ECPR General Conference, Oslo, 6-9 September 2017.

Allern, Elin H., Vibeke Wøien Hansen, Heike Klüver, David Marshall, Simon Otjes, Thomas Poguntke, Anne Rasmussen, Sabine Saurugger (2017): Conceptualizing and Measuring Party-Interest Group Relationships: How Parties? Relational Ties to Interest Groups Differ in Old Democracies. Paper presented at ECPR General Conference, Oslo, 6-9 September 2017

Allern, Elin H, Tim Bale, Simon Otjes, Vibeke Wøien Hansen and Maiken Røed (2016): Relationships between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the 21st century: Evidence from 12 Mature Democracies Presentation. Paper presented at the EPSA Annual Conference in Brussels, June 23-25, 2016.

Allern, Elin H. and Tània Verge (2015): Still Connecting with Society? A Cross-sectional Study of Political Parties’ Formal Links with Social Groups in the 21st Century. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of APSA, September 3-6, 2015, San Francisco.

Allern, Elin H., Tim Bale and Simon Otjes (2015): Drifting Apart but not Divorced? Relationships between Centre-Left Parties and Trade Unions in Established Democracies. Paper presented at EPSA Conference, June 25-27, 2015, Vienna.