Different categories of interest actors in EU governance are systematically compared, assessing whether a common model is detectable across 'functional' and 'territorial' actor types, assessing whether similarities outweigh the differences, where differences can be found, and whether such differences are significant.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of European Integration.

Michèle Knodt is Jean Monnet Professor for European Integration and Comparative Politics at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.

Christine Quittkat is a Researcher at the Centre for European Social Research (MZES)/University of Mannheim, Germany.

Justin Greenwood is Professor of European Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.

1. Introduction: Territorial and Functional Interest Representation in EU-Governance, Michele Knodt.

2. The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU, Simona Piattoni.

3. Collaboration and Consultation: Functional Representation in EU Stakeholder Dialogues, Holly Jarman.

4. Lobbying via Consultation - Territorial and Functional Interests in the Commission's Consultation Regime, Christine Quittkat.

5. Strategies of territorial and functional interests: Towards a model of European interest intermediation?, Michele Knodt.

6. Actors of the Common Interest? The Brussels Offices of the Regionsm, Justin Greenwood.

7. Social Movements and the European Interest Intermediation of Public Interest Groups, Carlo Ruzza.

8. Interests, Influence and Information: Comparing the Influence of Interest Groups in the European Union, Adam Chalmers.

9. The impact of national business cultures on large-firm lobbying in the European Union: Evidence from a large-scale survey of Government Affairs Managers, Andrew Barron.

10. Weakness as precondition of smooth integration? Representation strategies of functional interest groups from new member states at the EU level, Heiko Pleines.