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The political influence of interest groups manifests in different ways. Interest groups may affect which political problems attract attention as well as the political decisions aimed at solving these problems. Crucially, different types of groups may be successful in respect to these different dimensions of influence. Economic groups have been described as engaging more in "insider" politics affecting public policy decisions, whereas citizen groups engage more in "outsider" politics affecting agenda setting. This study investigates the multidimensional character of interest group influence and links it to group type as well as lobbying strategies. The study is based on original survey data collected among Danish and British interest groups in 2011–2014. We find two related but distinct dimensions associated with agenda-setting and decision-making lobbying success. The analyses show that citizen and economic groups influence politics in different ways due to their choice of strategies and their different types of resources. Thus, group type has a direct as well as an indirect effect on lobbying success. This relationship is present in both pluralist UK and corporatist Denmark.

This book assesses the challenges young people face in the contemporary labour markets of England and Germany in the context of mass migration, rising nationalism and accelerating technological change, and considers the resources and skills young people in Europe will need in the future.

In a series of studies, three measures of clinical group benefits are developed These scales assess intimate behavior—a construct hypothesized to be central to the explication of group benefits. Intimate behavior increases awareness and knowledge of the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral functioning of self (intrapersonal intimacy) and of others, and the relationship of self to others (interpersonal intimacy). The three measures developed in this study assess performance of the behaviors in a group (or any other given setting), attitudes toward the behaviors, and performance of the behaviors in every day life. Elicitation of behavior in groups is readily accomplished, but it is constrained by person and situation variables. Attitudes toward the behaviors are volatile, changes in behavior outside the group are more difficult to effect

Introduction -- Politics, language ideologies and the changing shape of language policy processes -- Language-in-education: a dominant monolingual ideology in tension with multilingual practices -- Local/Global trajectories -- Representation/performance of diversities -- Internationalization and new diversities in higher education: Policies and practices 'on the ground' -- Afterword