Is Europe Listening to Us?

Successes and Failures of EU Citizen Consultations
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4094-5435-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

How can the European Union engage and connect with the people it aims to represent? What initiatives and schemes have been used to engage EU citizens? To what extent can such procedures be considered a move forward towards a more participative and democratic Europe? This collection of internationally recognised specialists in European integration and innovative democratic practices seek to answer these key questions, explore European citizens’ thoughts and opinions about the EU and evaluate the governing elite’s attempts to engage with the public. It offers critical analysis of EU justifications and strategies for implementing Deliberative Citizens Involvement Projects and focuses on some of the major participative experiences trialled and implemented by EU institutions. By comparing these different attempts to increase and bolster the participation of EU citizens and evaluating their impact the book offers valuable and original material on the civic involvement of EU citizens and the legitimacy of the EU decision making process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kies, Raphaël

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, RaphaëlKies, PatriziaNanz; Part I Contextual and Theoretical Framework; Chapter 1 Europe’s New Communication Policy and the Introduction of Transnational Deliberative Citizens’ Involvement Projects, MundoYang; Chapter 2 European Governance and the Deliberative Challenge, DawidFriedrich; Part II Case Studies; Chapter 3 European Citizens’ Consultation, RaphaëlKies, MoniqueLeyenaar, KeesNiemöller; Chapter 4 Toward a European Public Sphere – The EuroPolis Project, PierangeloIsernia, JamesFishkin, JürgSteiner, DaniloDi Mauro; Chapter 5 Talking with the Wind? Discussion on the Quality of Deliberation in the Ideal-EU Project, JulienTalpin, LaurenceMonnoyer-Smith; Chapter 6 Combining Inclusion with Impact on the Decision? The Commission’s Online Consultation on the European Citizens’ Initiative, RomainBadouard; Chapter 7 The Deliberative Quality of the Agora, LéaRoger; Part III Comparative Analyses; Chapter 8 Designing Democratic Innovations at the European Level, GrahamSmith; Chapter 9 A Comparison of Deliberative Designs and Policy Impact in the EU and Across the Globe, JohnGastil;

Über Autor(innen)

RaphaÃ'l Kies is a researcher at the University of Luxembourg. His main research interests are citizen's participation, electoral studies and theories of democracy with a focus on e-democracy and deliberative democracies. Patrizia Nanz is Professor of Political Theory at the University Bremen, Germany. Her research interests are democratic theories, political deliberation and public participation.