| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This text tackles the issue of civil society's democratic input to EU governance. It looks at how participatory democracy, laid down in the Lisbon Treaty and advocated by the Commission, is put into practice and whether the involvement of civil society lives up to the high expectation of upgrading the Union's democratic legitimacy. |
| Contents |
Civil society and democracy in the EU: high expectations under empirical scrutiny / Beate Kohler-Koch -- Governing with the European civil society / Beate Kohler-Koch -- Involving civil society in EU governance: the consultation regime of the European Commission / Christine Quittkat and Beate Kohler-Koch -- Consultation in daily practice: an in-depth analysis / Christine Quittkat -- New instruments serving democracy: Do online constitutions benefit civil society? / Christine Quittkat -- Balancing act of European civil society: between professionalism and grass roots / Beate Kohler-Koch and Vanessa Buth -- Information strategies of organized civil society: does anyone listen? / Christina Altides -- Civil society participation: more democracy or pluralization of the European lobby? / Beate Kohler-Koch. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political participation -- European Union countries.
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Political participation. |
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European Union countries. |
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Democratization -- European Union countries.
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Democratization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Quittkat, Christine, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kohler-Koch, Beate, 1941- De-mystification of participatory democracy 9780199674596 (OCoLC)835969694 |
| ISBN |
9780191662102 (electronic book) |
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0191662100 (electronic book) |
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9780191756221 |
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0191756229 |
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9780199674596 (hardback) |
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0199674590 (hardback) |
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