Civil society and legitimate European governance /
edited by Stijn Smismans
- Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2006
- xii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Based on a workshop organized at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris in May 2003
Includes bibliographical references and index
Civil society and European governance : from concepts to research agenda / Democracy in the European Union : why and how combine representation and participation? / Inclusive governance? civil society and the open method of co-ordination / Civil society and legitimate governance in a flexible Europe : critical deliberativism as a way forward / Group Litigation before the European Court of Justice / Civil Society organisations and participatory administration : a challenge to EU administrative law? / When EU civil society complains : civil society organisations and ombudsmanship at the European level / European institutions and the policy discourse of organised civil society / Comparing civil society participation in European environmental policy and consumer protection / European trade-union strategies : between technocratic efficiency and democratic legitimacy / Inventing the people : civil society participation and the enhabitation of the EU / The professionalisation of interest representation : a legitimacy problem for civil society in the EU? / Business interest representation and legitimate European governance / Civil society and European Governance : the interdisciplinary challenge of reflexive deliberative polyarchy / Stijn Smismans -- Paul Magnette -- Kenneth A. Armstrong -- Alex Warleigh -- Olivier De Schutter -- Carol Harlow -- Peter Bonnor -- Carlo Ruzza -- Hubert Heinelt and Britta Meinke-Brandmaier -- Roland Erne -- Laura Cram -- Sabine Saurugger -- Pieter Bouwen -- Stijn Smismans
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Civil society--European Union countries--Congresses Legitimacy of governments--European Union countries--Congresses Political participation--European Union countries--Congresses