Participatory Democracy and Civil Society in the EU: Agenda-Setting and Institutionalisation

✍ Scribed by Luis Bouza Garcia (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
The Contribution of Civil Society to Bridging the Gap with EU Citizens: Reviewing a Decade of Debate....Pages 1-18
From the Regulation of Lobbies to Participatory Democracy: Agenda Setting and Civil Society in the EU....Pages 19-40
Interpretive Frames in the Agenda-Setting Process, 1997–2003....Pages 41-69
Networking and Alliances....Pages 70-82
Organised Civil Society and the Convention’s Agenda....Pages 83-98
Influence on the Agenda and Field Effects....Pages 99-114
The Development of the Participatory Agenda in the Aftermath of the Convention (2003–2011): Consultation and Direct Participation....Pages 115-129
Assessing the Contribution of Participation to Legitimacy....Pages 130-143
A Decade of Debate about Participatory Democracy....Pages 144-157
Back Matter....Pages 158-199

✦ Subjects

Political Science; Social Policy; Political Sociology; European Culture; European Union Politics; Democracy