Based on fresh empirical study, this book addresses fundamental questions surrounding the European political economy. An impressive array of contributors confront the issue of collective action at national and transnational levels.

1. Conceptualising Collective Action in the European Union: An Introduction 2. What Drives Associability at the European Level? The Limits of the Utilitarian Explanation 3. The EU Institutions and Collective Action: Constructing a European interest? 4. A Collective Action Problem? Danish Interest Associations and Euro Groups 5. The Changing Architecture of Big Business 6. The Professions 7. European Consumer Groups: Multiple Levels of Governance and Multiple Logics of Collective Action 8. Environmental Collective Action: Stable patterns of co-operation and issue alliances at the European level 9. Collective Attraction - The New Political Game in Brussels Bibliography.