Is it possible for an object to apply an effect to the area behind it?

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I'm having trouble and none of my other Illustrator-fluent friends are certain one way or the other. I'm attempting to create some objects with a transparent look similar to the Vista "Aero Glass" effect -- basically a semitransparent object that applies a gaussian blur to everything behind it. The only way I can currently think to do this is to create a blurred copy of the background and then use a clipping path limit the blur to the glass shapes -- but that's obviously inelegant and makes it impossible to stack the glass objects without creating a lot of extra work if anything needs changing. Is there a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do in a moveable, scalable vector style?

Not that I'm aware and I think it's the wrong workflow to begin with. What you should do instead is work on the vector shapes in AI, but do the actual effect in Photoshop using smart objects and smart filters. This would keep you flexible up to the latest moment and then, when you have finalized the design, it would be easy to save a copy of the PS stuff and bring it as a background into AI, should at that point this still be required.
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