Lise Rødland passes her PhD viva

The ADVODID team are pleased to announce that last Thursday (23rd January) Lise Rødland passed her PhD viva at the University of Oslo. Her thesis is titled: ‘Interest Groups and Political Representation in Long established European Democracies’ sheds new light on the role of interest groups as vehicles of political representation in long-established European democracies. It shows that interest groups tend to adopt positions that align with the preferences of citizens who are well represented through the electoral channel. However, the negative consequences of this, in terms of political representation, could be ameliorated because when a policy area is important to a party, the party tends to grant access to and be receptive to a wider range of interest groups.