Participatory Democracy and Civil Society in the EU [electronic resource] : Agenda-Setting and Institutionalisation /
Garcia, Luis Bouza.author.
This book is about both the symbolic and the real struggles for the control of the EU's agenda on participatory democracy in the last fifteen years. The book analyzes how civil society organizations contributed to an agenda which has implications for the regulation of interest groups to the institutions and for the democratic legitimacy of the EU.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Contribution of Civil Societyto Bridging the Gap with EUCitizens: Reviewing a Decade ofDebate; 2 From the Regulation of Lobbies toParticipatory Democracy: AgendaSetting and Civil Society in the EU; 3 Interpretive Frames in the Agenda-Setting Process, 1997-2003; 4 Networking and Alliances; 5 Organised Civil Society and theConvention's Agenda; 6 Influence on the Agenda and FieldEffects
7 The Development of theParticipatory Agenda in theAftermath of the Convention(2003-2011): Consultation andDirect Participation8 Assessing the Contribution ofParticipation to Legitimacy; 9 A Decade of Debate aboutParticipatory Democracy; Annexes; Annex 1 List of interviews; Annex 2 List of EU level organisations andavailable data; Annex 3 Coding matrices; Annex 4 Networking questionnaire; Annex 5 Network analysis method and data sources; Annex 6 Evidence of origin pilot and actual ECIs; Annex 7 In- and out degrees; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is about both the symbolic and the real struggles for the control of the EU's agenda on participatory democracy in the last fifteen years. The book analyzes how civil society organizations contributed to an agenda which has implications for the regulation of interest groups to the institutions and for the democratic legitimacy of the EU.
Political science.
Social policy.
Political sociology.
Ethnology-Europe.
European Union.
Democracy.
Political Science.
Social Policy.
Political Sociology.
European Culture.
European Union Politics.
Democracy.