Citizen Participation in Multi-Level Democracies

✍ Scribed by Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle; Sabine Kropp; Francesco Palermo; Karl-Peter Sommermann

Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 390
Series: Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Citizen Participation in Multi-level Democracies offers an overview of new forms of participatory democracy in federally and regionally organised multi-level states. Its four sections focus on the conceptual foundations of participation, the implementation and instruments of democracy, examples from federal and regional States, and the emergence of participation on the European level.There is today a growing disaffection amongst the citizens of many states towards the traditional models of representative democracy. This book highlights the various functional and structural problems with which contemporary democracies are confronted and which lie at the root of their peoples' discontent. Within multi-level systems in particular, the fragmentation of state authority generates feelings of powerlessness among citizens. In this context, citizens' participation can in many cases be a useful complement to the representative and direct forms of democracy.

✦ Subjects

Democracy - Europe - Citizen participation; LAW051000; LAW075000; NON000000

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