Adrià Albareda

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Erasmus University Rotterdam

This article examines the relationship between business interest associations’ (BIAs’) governance configurations and their access to administrative officials and political heads of the European Union. We focus on how effective BIAs design their plenaries and boards to address the inclusiveness-efficiency tradeoff. By means of a qualitative comparat...

Interest groups are key intermediary actors that communicate societal interests and preferences to public officials. Given public officials’ reliance on interest groups’ input in public policy processes, it is essential to understand how groups establish policy positions and assess the democratic nature of this process. Focusing on the leadership p...

Interest groups are key intermediary actors that communicate societal interests and preferences to public officials. Given public officials’ reliance on interest groups’ input in public policy processes, it is essential to understand how groups establish policy positions and assess the democratic nature of this process. Focusing on the leadership p...

Interest groups are key intermediary actors that communicate societal interests and preferences to public officials. Given public officials’ reliance on interest groups’ input in public policy processes, it is essential to understand how groups establish policy positions and assess the democratic nature of this process. Focusing on the leadership p...

This article asks why public officials perceive some interest groups as influential for policy outcomes. Theoretically, we rely on resource exchange and behavioral approaches. Perceived influence of interest groups does not only follow from the policy capacities they bring to the table; it also relates to the extent to which public officials consid...

This article systematically examines how access of business groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to the executive branch of the European Union varies across political heads, civil servants, and an understudied yet critical intermediary figure of the executive branch: political advisers. Building upon exchange theory, we argue that the oc...

Interest groups are perceived as vehicles that can enhance the legitimacy of public institutions at the national and supranational level. However, the potential of these organizations to enhance democratic representation is often questioned and has rarely been systematically analysed. In this article, we examine the under-researched area of interes...

Contemporary governance is increasingly characterized by the consultation of different types of stakeholders, such as interest groups representing economic and citizen interests, as well as public and private institutions, such as public authorities and firms. Previous research has demonstrated that public officials use a variety of tools to involv...

Stakeholder engagement is often considered an essential component of regulatory policymak-ing and governance. Our main aim in this paper is to explain variation in stakeholder engagement across regulatory trajectories. More specifically we aim to assess why some regulatory policymaking processes attract a larger and more diverse set of stakeholders...

Interest groups are key intermediary actors between civil society and public officials. The EU has long emphasized the importance of interacting with representative groups that involve their members. Additionally, there is an increasing trend toward the professionalization of groups that invest in organizational capacities to efficiently provide po...

Intergovernmental networks have become a prominent cooperative mechanism to deal with trans‐boundary and interdependent problems. Yet, we still have limited knowledge of how these collaborative endeavors are governed, which is crucial to properly understanding how they function. This paper empirically examines the structural governance configuratio...

The European Commission's outreach to interest groups implies that they function as 'transmis-sion belts' that aggregate and articulate interests as policy-relevant information for policy-makers. Operating as a transmission belt, however, requires an organizational design fit for this purpose. We offer one of the first systematic analyses of how or...

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are considered important intermediaries between citizens and policymakers. They are assumed to function as transmission belts that filter societal preferences and channel them to policymakers. Although the ability of CSOs to connect civil society with policymakers has been put into question, it has rarely been the...

Since the onset of the Great Recession, "doing more with less" has become a policy mantra. To do more with less, a range of governments have concurrently imposed wage cuts and greater work demands on public employees. This article assesses the impact of these changes on the job satisfaction and work motivation of public employees in 34 European cou...

Este libro analiza cuales son las perspectivas del empleo público en España, en un entorno global que modificara sus posibilidades de actuación en el ámbito de las políticas publicas de cara al futuro inmediato. Factores como el envejecimiento progresivo de la población en las sociedades desarrolladas, las distintas transformaciones científicas y t...

In understanding what drives the development of network administrative organizations (NAOs) in mandated networks, power bargaining is central. The authors execute a comparative longitudinal case study of NAOs in two policy-mandated networks. The article focuses specifically on the role of power in these developments and concludes that differences i...

this research focuses on two innovative practices in the public sector. The first is eprocurement, which refers to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to carry out a number of stages of the procurement process, including search, sourcing, negotiation, ordering, receipt, and post-purchase review. This technology is relevant...

Innovation has become increasingly important for public organizations, in order to respond to environmental pressures and demands. The role of public managers is central in innovation, because they connect their organization with the relevant resources and ideas that are needed for innovation. Although the dominant governance paradigms (traditional...

Social innovation in the public sector has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, as they try to solve intractable policy problems. The pressure on governments to do more with less in response to shrinking budgets and expanding community expectations and obligations has increased attention on how the public...

This policy brief presents the findings of the first work package (WP1) of the "Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments" (LIPSE) project. LIPSE is a research program under the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme as a Small or Medium-Scale Focused Research Project (2013-2016). LIPSE focusses on studying social innovations in...

Social innovation in the public sector has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, as they try to solve intractable policy problems. The pressure on governments to do more with less in response to shrinking budgets and expanding community expectations and obligations has increased attention on how the pub...

In this research paper we answer the research question What determines the structural complexity of network administrative organizations (NAOs)? The question warrants further research due to the lack of empirical studies on the topic. We design a quantitative study of the structure of all 38 European regulatory networks. Using Bayesian statistics w...

Why is governance of addiction so difficult? What can we learn from recent experiences and efforts in Europe? Governance of Addictions analyses the multidisciplinary research which has been used as a framework for understanding how governments formulate and implement addiction policies in 27 European Union member states plus Norway, looking in deta...

En el context d’una dura crisi econòmica i una profunda crisi institucional, cal replantejar i actualitzar el discurs ètic tradicional en l’administració pública. Actualment, s’ha arribat a un punt en el qual els ciutadans ja no creuen que l’Administració pública i els valors puguin encara anar agafats de la mà. L’afebliment de la confiança de la c...

In this research paper we answer the research question: What determines the structural complexity of network administrative organizations (NAOs)? The question warrants further research due to the lack of empirical studies on the topic. We design a quantitative study of the structure of all 38 European regulatory networks. Using Bayesian statistics...

We present a comparative multidisciplinary research (including public management, health, political science, sociology, economics and law) which develops an explanatory framework for understanding how governments formulate and implement addiction policies in Europe. Through an in-depth analysis of the 27 EU member states plus Norway, the authors pr...

We assess how the role of leadership affects network governance form. The paper is based on theory-driven empirical research. Our theoretical framework is twofold: On the one hand, the study is based on network literature on public management and, on the other hand, on shared, dual and co-leadership literature on general management. In this sense,...

The paper proceeds as follows: the first part frames regionalism and describes four basic concepts for the understanding of regionalism. The second part analyses two cases of sub-regional initiatives in the region, namely the AMU and the GCC; and it also studies a new cooperation initiative promoted since 2010 by Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan c...