Patrycja RozbickaAston University · School of Languages and Social Sciences
Patrycja Rozbicka
PhD
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Introduction
My primary work is focused on the interest groups and multi-level lobbying. My second field of specialisation is regulation within music industry.
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August 2020 - present
August 2015 - August 2020
October 2011 - August 2015
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Publications (56)
The article discusses a link between interest representation and its importance for democracy. After looking at the pluralist, corporatist and neo-pluralist approaches, the article focuses on the role of interest groups in associational, deliberative, and participatory democracies. I debate whether or not interest representation is a necessary elem...
Patrycja Rozbicka, Simon Barber, Nicholas Gebhardt and Craig Hamilton explore the implications and possible responses to the rise of AI in the music industry. This is the sixth post in a EGG commentary series exploring how AI’s development is affecting economic, social and political decision-making around the world.
The interest groups’ population ecology studies have historically been heavily weighted towards Western democracies. Despite being one of the world’s largest country and democracy, with established qualitative research on business groups India remains relatively elusive in this field of research. Although interest groups are recognised elsewhere as...
Understanding interest group systems is crucial to understanding the functioning of advanced democracies, but less is known about its relevance in developing and nascent democracies. While advocacy studies in the Global North have exploded since the late 1990s, exploration of organized interest activities in the Global South remains a niche topic,...
This article discusses the context of, and presents findings from, a project examining the live music sector in Birmingham, UK. This research is set against the backdrop of the broader socio-political impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and links it to national and global contexts. We explore the live music ecology of Birmingham and highlight...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music policy has become an important arm of government, and...
While political parties provide a key channel for political representation, organised interests can also be an important mechanism. A valid question is whether a system of interest groups is capable of ensuring the representation of a variety of public and private interests. Addressing this conundrum requires data that map the essential traits of o...
Purpose
This paper sets out to compare different methodologies for measuring the value(s) of live popular music and to explore the different motivations amongst a range of organisations engaged in that work.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors analyse how the values of live music are measured, who does it and why. Based on this analysis the au...
The introduction to this book focuses on the discussion of a link between interest representation and its importance for democracy and factors influencing groups’ numbers and organizational behaviour. After a look at the pluralist, corporatist and neo-pluralist approaches, we focus in particular on the role for interest groups in associational, del...
We start the chapter by comparing the relationship between trade unions and political parties in Central Eastern European and Western European Countries. We point to the fact that unions did not build the stable and long-term relationships with political parties as can be observed in the Western democracies. Through the combined analysis of the his...
This chapter explores the provisions within political systems in the CEE countries and how they were designed to stimulate interest groups engagement in the policy process. We start from the processes that influenced the development of institutional structures as they exist today. We continue with evaluating the existing legal and institutional det...
A condition for the existence of democratic society is a mechanism for citizens to have an effective political voice. While political parties provide a key channel for expressing views and preferences, organized interests provide another important mechanism for such representation. A valid question in this regard is whether the system of interest g...
This chapter investigates developments in the nongovernmental sector in Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia. Firstly, historical data on the population of NGOs is presented. Later, the focus is on a ‘mushrooming’ of NGOs after 1989 with the comparative survey data as source. In the final part of the chapter a case study from each country is presented. T...
This chapter looks into the unprecedented increase in the number of interest organizations during the accession process to the European Union dating from the early 1990s up to 2004. We argue that faced with the competitive pluralistic and multilevel governance of the EU, interest groups in CEE countries went through a ‘crash course’ in lobbying pro...
While summarizing the book’s contribution, the last chapter revisits three themes that flow throughout the book; the effects of the legal, social and political contexts on interest organizations’ population and organizational activities in the CEE countries. We conclude with a debate on the future of ‘lobbying’ in the current political and social e...
The chapter analyzes factors informing relations between interest organizations and political parties in three post-Communist countries: Poland, Slovenia and Lithuania. The base of comparison are responses to the comparative survey conducted among organizations at the national level. The fundamental question of the chapter is whether these young de...
The collective editorial discusses inequalities that scholars in Europe and the Americas world have paid attention to during 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic has unevenly and unpredictably impacted on societies. The critical reflections reveal that the continuing ramifications of the pandemic can only be understood in place; like other large-scale p...
‘This book brings added value to the already rich literature on interest groups, representation and democracy. The most important contribution is that the detailed analysis of the growth, role and importance of the interest group system in Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia is put in a comparative perspective. It provides a deep understanding of the si...
This chapter primarily analyzes the differences in strategies for inside lobbying (i.e. direct interactions with policy-makers or participation in policy consultations) between business and non-business organizations in the studied countries in a comparative perspective. The existing research on Western Democracies concludes that interest organizat...
Refugee camps and reception and identification centres (RICs) have long been imagined as ‘the best’ or ‘most suitable’ places for displaced people by states and border management authorities. In contrast, informal housing often provided by activist groups, is frequently framed as a part of the urban ‘badlands’. Drawing on research carried out betwe...
The Birmingham Live Music Project (BLMP) Team, consisting of Patrycja Rozbicka (Aston), Craig Hamilton (BCU), Adam Behr (Newcastle), Patricia Correa Vila (Aston), and Luke John Davies (Aston), has just released a report titled: ‘Birmingham Live Music and Brexit’. This document is the first in a series of reports produced through on-going, collabora...
Motivation: The paper examines the advocacy strategies used by European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs). The literature on development aid has not put much emphasis on understanding the aid-related advocacy strategies of NGDOs, and the literature on interest groups has so far paid little attention to explaining why these select d...
Political scientists have always accorded interest organizations a prominent place in European Union (EU) policy-making because they connect the EU institutions to citizens, provide important information to EU policy-makers, and control resources that impact on the problem-solving capacity of EU policies. In other words, they are vital to both the...
The question of a fallout from Brexit on the music industry is hunting a number of analysts. The trend in mushrooming publications (see for example: Billboard and Pitchfork portals)[1] and media coverage (with the Guardian and Politico.eu taking lead) confirms existing interest in the topic. Most of the analysts draw a distinction between the immed...
Comparative and EU interest group studies are marked by a progression towards theory-driven, large-N empirical studies in the past 20 years. With the study of national interest organisations in EU policy-making, this special issue puts centre stage a theoretically and empirically neglected topic in this research field. The individual contributions...
In the EU multilevel polity, domestic interest groups seek to shape EU legislation by accessing both national and EU institutions. Previous studies indicated that institutional and issue contexts as well as organisational characteristics shape their strategies of interest representation. However, we know much less about how alignments and arguments...
Brexit is upon us, and we contribute to the debate with an article discussing the perils of the new juncture for the UK live music market.
The British music industry was worth a stunning £4.1 billion in 2014 (UK Music 2015a) with a confirmed
5% growth from the estimates in 2013, outperforming the general UK economic growth of 2.6%. The
excess of 117.000 full-time jobs was spread across the sector. The corner stone of the sector are live music
events. The most recent data indicates tha...
The question of a fallout from Brexit is hunting a number of analysts. The trend in mushrooming publications (see for example: German Law Journal, Special supplement printed on Brexit already early July 2016) and media coverage (with the Guardian and Politico.eu taking lead) confirms it. Most of the analysts draw a distinction between the immediate...
Trade unions in Poland have not built the stable and long-term relations
with political parties as are observed in Western democracies. By analysing
the historical and symbolic background of the transformation to a democratic
civil society and free market economy, political preferences of working class, trade
union membership rates, and public opin...
The article addresses the bias in interest representation within the EU by examining the lobbying
strategies of national interest organisations within the EU’s multilevel political system. Both our theoretical
framework, which includes the determinants of a national interest organisation’s decision to act at the
EU level, and the data analysis from...
Although interests inhabit a central place in the multiple streams framework (MSF), interest groups have played only a minor role in theoretical and empirical studies until now. In Kingdon’s original conception, organized interests are a key variable in the politics stream. Revisiting Kingdon’s concept with a particular focus on interest groups and...
Studies of framing in the EU political system are still a rarity and they suffer from a lack of systematic empirical analysis. Addressing this gap, we ask if institutional and policy contexts intertwined with the strategic side of
framing can explain the number and types of frames employed by different stakeholders. We use a computer-assisted manua...
The chapter investigates the predominant governance modes during the formulation of three EU directives in the wake of the global financial crisis as well as the amount of policy change they introduced. The directives regulate deposit guarantee schemes, alternative investment fund managers, and the investor protection scheme. We illustrate that dif...
Although interests inhabit a central place in the Multiple Stream Framework (MSF), interest groups play only a minor role in theoretical and empirical studies. This is surprising due to the fact that in the original conception of Kingdon, organized interest was a key variable in the politics stream (Kingdon 1984). But, it moved to the background in...
Voting Advice Applications (VAA) are becoming a more significant part of the political environment in the Western Europe. Their popularity is growing together with the number of users that employ them to receive voting advice in upcoming elections. The aim of the article is to analyse the problems related with creation and maintenance of VAAs. The...
The paper starts from the premise that policy framing is a political strategy. Interest groups employ policy frames and highlight certain policy arguments in policy debates to impact on policy outcomes. In our study, we analyze the variation of frames that EU and national level interest groups use in support of their positions. We test if the selec...
Framing plays an important role in public policy. Interest groups strategically highlight some aspects of a policy proposal while downplaying others in order to steer the policy debate in a favorable direction. Despite the importance of framing, we still know relatively little about the framing strategies of interest groups due to methodological di...
The aim of this contribution is to critically evaluate one of the theoretical approaches used to study the European Union (EU) political system and interest groups activity: the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). ACF considers that the outcome of legislative procedures is influenced by the alignment and role played by advocacy coalitions. This con...