Citizens' Initiatives in Europe

Procedures and Consequences of Agenda-Setting by Citizens
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-34014-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

An exploration and analysis of the regulation and practices of citizens' initiatives in eleven European democracies and the EU. The contributors to this volume shed light on how citizens' initiatives influence patterns of political agenda-setting in representative democracies and how they can contribute to participatory democracy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Setala, M.

Setälä, M.

Schiller, T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; T.Schiller & M.Setälä PART I: PRACTICES OF FULL-SCALE INITIATIVES Switzerland: Citizens' Initiatives as a Measure to Control the Political Agenda; G.Lutz Initiatives in Liechtenstein - Safety Valve in a Complex System of Government; W.Marxer An Electoral Tactic? Citizens' Initiatives in Post-Soviet Latvia; D.Auers PART II: SYSTEMS MIXING DIFFERENT TYPES OF INITIATIVES Institutions of Citizens' Political Participation in Italy: Crooked Forms, Hindered Institutionalization; P.Uleri Initiative Instruments in Germany – Variations in Regional States; T.Schiller Citizens' Initiative in Hungary: An Additional Opportunity for Power-Sharing in an Extremely Majoritarian System; Z.T.Pállinger Citizens' Initiative in Lithuania: Initiative Institutions and their Political Impact in a New Democracy; A.Krupavicius If It Works, Fine, If Not, So What? Initiatives in Slovakia; E.Láštic PART III: PRACTICES OF AGENDA INITIATIVES The Austrian Agenda Initiative: An Instrument Dominated by Opposition Parties; K.Giese The Spanish Agenda Initiative and the Reform of its Legal Regime: A New Chance for Participatory Democracy?; V.Cuesta-López Popular Initiatives in Poland: Citizen Empowerment or Keeping Up Appearances?; A.Rytel-Warzocha Transnational 'Babystep': The European Citizens' Initiative; B.Kaufmann Comparative Findings; T.Schiller & M.Setälä

Über Autor(innen)

DAUNIS AUERS Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science at the University of Latvia
VÍCTOR CUESTA Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
KARIM GIESE Assistant Professor for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University Salzburg, Spain, Austria
BRUNO KAUFMANN Co-founder and President of the Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe and member of the City Government in Falun, Sweden
ALGIS KRUPAVICIUS Professor and Director of Policy and Public Administration Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
ERIK LÁ TIC Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
GEORG LUTZ Project Director of the Swiss Electoral Studies (Selects) at the Social Science Research Centre FORS, Lausanne, Sweden
WILFRIED MARXER Director and Head of the Department of Political Sciences at the Liechtenstein Institute, Bendern, Liechtenstein
ZOLTÁN TIBOR PÁLLINGER Associate Professor for Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of International Relations, Andrássy German-Speaking University Budapest, Hungary
ANNA RYTEL-WARZOCHA Senior Research and Teaching Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdansk, Poland
THEO SCHILLER Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Philipps University Marburg Germany
MAIJA SETÄLÄ Academy Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Turku in Finland
PIERVINCENZO ULERI Researcher in Political Science at the 'Cesare Alfieri', University of Florence, Italy