Cultural capital and the density of organised interests lobbying the European Parliament

Figures & data

Table 1. Interest groups in the European Parliament registry per country.

Country	Count	Rank	GDP/group (euro millions)	Rank	Population/group (thousands)	Rank	EP seats/group	Rank
Germany	148	1	3991	8	556	9	0.67	3
Belgium	112	2	734	1	95	1	0.21	1
France	95	3	4854	15	669	12	0.81	4
Italy	89	4	4258	10	665	11	0.86	5
United Kingdom	74	5	6328	17	825	13	1.04	8
Netherlands	43	6	3248	4	381	4	0.62	2
Spain	36	7	7059	18	1244	15	1.48	10
Sweden	19	8	4160	9	480	7	0.99	7
Austria	18	9	3715	6	460	6	0.99	6
Denmark	13	10	4278	11	420	5	1.06	9
Finland	8	11	5381	16	660	10	1.73	11
Romania	6	12	4669	14	3495	20	3.43	16
Hungary	6	13	3958	7	1677	17	3.93	17
Ireland	5	14	8727	19	866	14	2.56	13
Poland	5	15	15,032	22	7628	22	10.64	21
Slovenia	4	16	2088	3	503	8	1.75	12
Greece	4	17	13,614	21	2793	19	5.90	18
Cyprus	2	18	1954	2	381	3	3.00	14
Luxembourg	2	19	4366	12	238	2	3.00	15
Estonia	1	20	3542	5	1345	16	6.00	19
Latvia	1	21	4567	13	2208	18	8.80	20
Slovakia	1	22	13,261	20	5375	21	13.80	22
Czech Republic	1	23	32,591	23	10,289	23	23.60	23
Bulgaria	0
Lithuania	0
Malta	0
Portugal	0

Table 2. Negative binomial regression explaining density.

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Log of GDP	1.061***		1.064***	1.038***
	(0.084)		(0.045)	(0.091)
Associational membership		0.059***	0.020***	0.020***
		(0.020)	(0.004)	(0.005)
Direct transfers (euro billions)				0.009
				(0.020)
Trade				0.015
				(0.069)
Constant	−23.973***	1.009	−24.789***	−24.225***
	(2.138)	(0.714)	(1.195)	(2.224)
McFadden pseudo-R2	0.26	0.03	0.34	0.34
Observations	26	26	26	26
Log Likelihood	−74.556	−97.345	−65.994	−65.878
Θ	6.284	0.451***	462.840	381.521
			(1756.730)	(1184.140)
	(4.050)
		(0.122)
Akaike Inf. Crit.	153.113	198.689	137.989	141.755

Note:

^* p < 0.1

^** p < 0.05

^*** p < 0.01.

Table 3. Negative binomial regression explaining density (exponentiated coefficients).

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Log of GDP	2.890		2.898	2.823
	(0.084)		(0.045)	(0.091)
Associational membership		1.060	1.020	1.020
		(0.020)	(0.004)	(0.005)
Direct transfers (euro billions)				1.009
				(0.020)
Trade				1.015
				(0.069)
Constant	0.000	2.744	0.000	0.000
	(2.138)	(0.714)	(1.195)	(2.224)

Figure 1. Plot of predicted density vs. GDP.

Figure 2. Plot of predicted density vs. voluntary association.