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In the last 20 years there have been a huge number of empirical studies of interest representation in the European Union (EU) (Butt-Phillip 1985; Mazey and Richardson 1993; Andersen and Eliassen 1995; Greenwood 1997, 2003; Van Schendelen 2002; Woll 2006a), the bulk of which sought to understand the Europeanization of interest groups (Richardson 2000; Coen 1997; Beyers 2002, 2004) and/or the role of interest groups in the multi-level European governance structure (Kohler-Koch and Eising 1999; Kohler Koch 1994; Grande 1996). While few grasped the measurement of influence, good progress has been made in mapping the access to the EU policy process (Coen 1997, 1998; Bouwen 2002, 2004a), and developing a rationale for the utilization of political channels (Eising 2004; Saurugger 2003). Nonetheless, while a few of these projects attempted to construct large N studies of interest action in the …