New Forms of Citizen Participation: Normative Implications

Prof. Erik Amnå PhD

doi:10.5771/9783845221274

Summary

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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Bibliographic data

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
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Erik Amnå
Balancing Hopes and Fears No access Erik Amnå
1. Is Citizen Political Involvement Always a Plus? No access Erik Amnå
2. Participatory Advisory Panels: How Democratic Are They? No access Erik Amnå
3. Electronic and Representative Democracy: A Happy Couple? Comparing Online Dialogues in the UK, Sweden and Italy No access Erik Amnå
4. Civic Participation and Interactive Decision-Making: A Case Study No access Erik Amnå
5. What Promotes Citizen Participation? Asking the Question Once More No access Erik Amnå
6. Deliberative Democracy as a Model for the EU. Normative Implications of Adapting Democracy to Governance beyond the Nation-State No access Erik Amnå
7. A Panacea for Pan-European Citizen Participation? Analysis of the 2009 European Citizens Consultations No access Erik Amnå
1. It Is Merely Changing. An Analysis of the Concept of Individualization in Relation to Contemporary Political Participation No access Erik Amnå
2. Unconventional Participation and the Problem of Inequality: A Comparative Analysis No access Erik Amnå
3. Democracy or Do-ocracy: The Activist Group “Byen Vår” and the Mobilisation against Clear Channel in Bergen No access Erik Amnå
4. Politics on the Net – an NGO Perspective No access Erik Amnå
5. Politics vs. Antipolitics in Italy in the Age of Monitory Democracy: The Complex Case of beppegrillo.it No access Erik Amnå
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1. Active, Passive, or Stand-by Citizens? Latent and Manifest Political Participation No access Erik Amnå
About the Authors No access Erik Amnå
Index No access Erik Amnå