Faculty & Research Published Research Research Advocacy International and Global Affairs Social Entrepreneurship (-) Economics Facet Area of Focus - Research Christopher J. Ruhm Adam Leive Edgar O. Olsen David Leblang Molly Lipscomb Bala Mulloth Charles Holt Eileen Chou John Pepper Leora Friedberg Raymond C. Scheppach Sebastian Tello-Trillo (-) Christine Mahoney Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research Economics Following the Money: EU Funding of Civil Society Groups Authors: Christine Mahoney, Michael Beckstrand The literature on EU integration has long recognized that the European Commission has promoted a pan‐European civil society in order to increase the legitimacy of the supranational institutions. While we know the Commission fosters EU civil society by encouraging their formal and informal participation in the EU policymaking processes and by directly funding them (Mahoney 2004), we have, until now, known very little about just how much money the Commission has been granting EU civil society organizations and to which segments of European civil society. Learn more
Published Research Economics Following the Money: EU Funding of Civil Society Groups Authors: Christine Mahoney, Michael Beckstrand The literature on EU integration has long recognized that the European Commission has promoted a pan‐European civil society in order to increase the legitimacy of the supranational institutions. While we know the Commission fosters EU civil society by encouraging their formal and informal participation in the EU policymaking processes and by directly funding them (Mahoney 2004), we have, until now, known very little about just how much money the Commission has been granting EU civil society organizations and to which segments of European civil society. Learn more