Declining interest among citizens in most Western societies in joining political parties and becoming involved in their local communities has been identified as a potential risk to the political systems in terms of losing its legitimacy. As a remedy, various new forms of participatory initiatives have been initiated. Some of the new forms of participation modes have been developed by the citizens themselves trying to get their voices better heard in political process. Other forms are initiated by leaders from above, who seek to improve the legitimacy of the political institutions.
This volume collects contributions by senior as well junior European scholars addressing a number of normatively relevant issues. What are the problems that the reforms are supposed to solve? Do they actually contribute to increased political engagement and participation at a more general level? The book consists of both theoretical reflections and a number of more empirically-related contributions. The contributions are results of discussions held in a workshop arranged by the Network of Excellence Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe – the Making of European Citizenship (CINEFOGO) in collaboration with the Swedish independent foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Örebro University, Sweden.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-3-8329-5240-2
ISBN-Online
978-3-8452-2127-4
Publisher
Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series
International Civil Society
Volume
3
Language
English
Pages
211
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Table of contents
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 6
Balancing Hopes and Fears No access Pages 7 - 14
Is Citizen Political Involvement Always a Plus? No access Pages 15 - 21
Participatory Advisory Panels: How Democratic Are They? No access Pages 21 - 35
Electronic and Representative Democracy: A Happy Couple? Comparing Online Dialogues in the UK, Sweden and Italy No access Pages 35 - 53
Civic Participation and Interactive Decision-Making: A Case Study No access Pages 53 - 67
What Promotes Citizen Participation? Asking the Question Once More No access Pages 67 - 81
Deliberative Democracy as a Model for the EU. Normative Implications of Adapting Democracy to Governance beyond the Nation-State No access Pages 81 - 97
A Panacea for Pan-European Citizen Participation? Analysis of the 2009 European Citizens Consultations No access Pages 97 - 114
It Is Merely Changing. An Analysis of the Concept of Individualization in Relation to Contemporary Political Participation No access Pages 115 - 131
Unconventional Participation and the Problem of Inequality: A Comparative Analysis No access Pages 131 - 147
Democracy or Do-ocracy: The Activist Group “Byen Vår” and the Mobilisation against Clear Channel in Bergen No access Pages 147 - 161
Politics on the Net – an NGO Perspective No access Pages 161 - 175
Politics vs. Antipolitics in Italy in the Age of Monitory Democracy: The Complex Case of beppegrillo.it No access Pages 175 - 190
Active, Passive, or Stand-by Citizens? Latent and Manifest Political Participation No access
About the Authors No access Pages 205 - 208
Index No access Pages 209 - 211
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