Research Focus

European public policy, European public administration, European integration, EU interest representation, international political economy, international relations

Academic Career

• Senior Research Fellow at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• Visiting Professor at EHSAL, Europese Hogeschool, Brussels, Belgium (since autumn 2002)
• Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany (2002-2003)
• Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies, Cologne, Germany (2001-2002)
• PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1997-2002)
• MSc in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom (1996-1997)
• Diploma in International Studies, Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center, Italy (1994-1995)
• Diplôme en Science Politique et Relations Internationales, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1994-1995)
• Erasmus Exchange at the Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany (1992-1993)
• Degree in Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, (1989-1993)

Past Projects

• Competing for Consultation: Informal Institutional Change and Inter-Organizational Conflict between the European Commission and the European Parliament
• New Modes of Governance in Europe – The Impact of the “Lamfalussy Committee” on European Governance
  
• Known but Unexplored – Non-Comitology Committees of Private Interests
• Inquiry into the Logic of Interest Group Formation in the European Union

Publications

Bouwen P., Competing for Consultation: Civil Society and Conflict between the European Commission and the European Parliament, West European Politics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 265-284, 2007.

Bouwen P., National Business Associations and European Integration: The Case of the Financial Sector, Governing Interests: Business Associations Facing Internationalization, Streeck W., Visser J., Schneider V., Grote J., (Eds.), London and New York, Routledge, pp. 178-196, 2006.

Bouwen P., Zugangslogik in der Europäischen Union: der Fall des Europäischen Parlaments, Interessenpolitik in Europa, Eising R., Kohler-Koch B., (Eds.), vol. 7, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2005.

Bouwen P., Bouwen Pieter, Exchanging Access Goods for Access: A Comparative Study of Business Lobbying in the EU Institutions, European Journal of Political Research, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 337-369, 2004.

Bouwen P., The Logic of Access to the European Parliament: Business Lobbying in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 473-495, 2004.

Bouwen P., The Democratic Legitimacy of Business Interest Representation in the European Union: Normative Implications of the Logic of Access, issue 2003/08, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, pp. 23, 2003. Abstract Full text

Bouwen P., Lobbying in de Europese Unie: Is er nog toekomst voor nationale belangengroepen?, Res Publica, the Belgian Journal for Political Science, vol. 4, pp. 673-696, 2003.

Bouwen P., A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Corporate Lobbying in the European Parliament, EIoP, vol. 7, issue 11, pp. xxx-xxx, 2003.

Bouwen P., Corporate lobbying in the European Union: towards a theory of access, Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 9, issue 3, pp. 365-390, 2002.

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