This book tackles the issue of civil society's democratic input to EU governance. It looks at how participatory democracy, laid down in the Lisbon Treaty and advocated by the Commission, is put into p
Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which representative democracy is combined with bureaucratic im
Bringing together contributors from the fields of law, political science, sociology, and political philosophy, Kohler-Koch (European integration, U. of Mannheim, Germany) and Rittberger (political sci
Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which representative democracy is combined with bureaucratic im
