Participatory Governance in the EU: Enhancing Or Endangering Democracy and Efficiency?

✍ Scribed by Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Thomas Persson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An empirical assessment of whether participatory governance reforms within the EU enhance or endanger democracy. Many consider allowing civil society to take an active role in EU policy-making to offer the most effective means of enhancing democracy in the EU, whereas others argue that such attempts deepen the EU's democratic deficit.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 7
List of Tables......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
1 Participatory Governance: Promises and Pitfalls......Page 12
2 Assessing Participatory Governance – A Survey Approach......Page 33
3 The Structure of Political Contestation......Page 51
4 Opportunities for Participation and Access to Information: Adequate and Equal?......Page 77
5 Chances to Influence Policy: Equal and Effective?......Page 95
6 Input and Output Legitimacy: Synergy or Trade-off?......Page 117
7 Participatory Governance: The Way Forward?......Page 134
Data Appendix: Variables Used in this Study......Page 147
Notes......Page 151
References......Page 154
Index......Page 165