Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe write by Alberto Alemanno. This book was released on 2021-02-05. Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the European Union undergoes a major, self-proclaimed democratic exercise the Conference on the Future of Europe and approaches Treaty change, this volume offers a new model of citizen participation to address Europe's long-standing democracy challenge, and respond to the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed are a set of democratic innovations, ranging from citizens assemblies to regulatory gaming to citizens initiatives and lobbying, which are complementary, not antagonistic, to existing representative democracy across the European continent. These innovations are emerging bottom-up across the continent and getting traction at local, national and EU level in a new era powered by technology. This book brings together academics as well as practitioners to give a forward-looking, holistic view of the realities of EU citizen participation across the spectrum of participatory opportunities. They all converge in arguing that, after many years of proven experimentation, the EU must institutionalize supranational, participative and deliberative, democratic channels to complement representative democracy and each other, and ultimately improve the effectiveness of EU citizen participation. While this institutional approach will not magically treat the EU democratic malaise, it should make the system more intelligible, accessible, and ultimately responsive to citizen demand without necessarily undertaking Treaty reform. The attempt to harness citizen participation to help address the current EU crisis needs the type of multi-faceted approach presented in this book. One that recognises the potential of existing and new democratic mechanisms, and also, importantly, the links between different instruments of citizen participation to improve the overall quality of EU's democratic system.
Activating the Citizen
Activating the Citizen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Activating the Citizen write by J. DeBardeleben. This book was released on 2009-08-12. Activating the Citizen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The decline of citizen involvement affects two key elements of democratic government: elections and political parties. Activating the Citizen examines the reasons underlying citizen withdrawal and explores and assesses innovative approaches on both sides of the Atlantic to try to counter these phenomena.
Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe
Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe write by Joan Font. This book was released on 2014-06-05. Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to the most successful and well-known grass-roots cases. This book examines a wider range of participatory interventions that have been created or legitimized by central governments, providing original exploration of institutional democratic participatory mechanisms. Looking at a huge variety of subnational examples across Italy, Spain and France, the book interrogates the rich findings of a substantial research project. The authors use quantitative and qualitative methods to compare why these cases of participatory mechanisms have emerged, how they function, and what cultural impact they’ve achieved. This allows highly original insights into why participatory mechanisms work in some places, but not others, and the sorts of choices that organizers of participatory processes have to consider when creating such policies.
Citizen Participation in Multi-level Democracies
Citizen Participation in Multi-level Democracies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizen Participation in Multi-level Democracies write by Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle. This book was released on 2015-03-20. Citizen Participation in Multi-level Democracies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Democratic Empowerment in the European Union
Democratic Empowerment in the European Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Empowerment in the European Union write by David Levi-Faur. This book was released on 2018-10-26. Democratic Empowerment in the European Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at democratic empowerment via institutional designs that extend the political rights of European citizens. It focuses on three themes: first, the positive and negative effects of the European Union institutional design on the political rights of its citizens; second, challenges for democratic regimes across the world in the 21st century in the context of regionalism and globalization; third, the constraints of neoliberalism and capitalist markets on the ability of citizens to effectively achieve their political rights within the Union.
