Civil society participation in European and global governance
Subtitle: a cure for the democratic deficit?
By: edited by Jens Steffek, Claudia Kissling, Patrizia Nanz.
Contributors: Kissling, Claudia, 1969-; Nanz, Patrizia.
Series: Transformations of the state
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Political participation -- European Union countries; International organization; Civil society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emergent patterns of civil society participation in global and European governance; title: The evolution of CSOs' legal status in international governance and its relevance for the legitimacy of international organizations; title: Society participation under most favourable conditions : assessing the deliberative quality of the world summit on the information society; title: The ILO, tripartism, and NGOs : do too many cooks really spoil the broth?; title: Society participation at the margins : the case of WTO; title: Society participation in international security organizations : the cases of NATO and OSCE; title: Democratic aspiration meets political reality : participation of organized civil society in selected European policy processes; title: Participatory strategies in the regulation of GMO products in the EU; title: Assessing the legitimacy of European regional policy: the interplay of civil society and state actors in Sweden and Germany.