This article offers a critical examination of the role played by migrants’ online communities. With much scholarly analysis focusing on new ways in which groups enable migrants to connect, interact or socialise together digital space, little attention has been paid how these are actually formed, whom and with what motivations. Drawing qualitative interviews moderators created EU living Wales, U...

Scholars have long recognized two classes of special interest group (SIG) expenditures: inside lobbying, which is intended to influence the content a bill; and outside likelihood bill enacted into law. This paper juxtaposes both lobbying activities within single model. Policy choices are function decision-maker's assessment SIGs' willingness engage in lobbying. Importantly, expenditures do not ...