Civil society and legitimate European governance / edited by Stijn Smismans

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 / Stijn Smismans -- Democracy in the European Union : why and how combine representation and participation? / Paul Magnette -- Inclusive governance? civil society and the open method of co-ordination / Kenneth A. Armstrong -- Civil society and legitimate governance in a flexible Europe : critical deliberativism as a way forward / Alex Warleigh -- Group Litigation before the European Court of Justice / Olivier De Schutter -- Civil Society organisations and participatory administration : a challenge to EU administrative law? / Carol Harlow -- When EU civil society complains : civil society organisations and ombudsmanship at the European level / Peter Bonnor -- European institutions and the policy discourse of organised civil society / Carlo Ruzza -- Comparing civil society participation in European environmental policy and consumer protection / Hubert Heinelt and Britta Meinke-Brandmaier -- European trade-union strategies : between technocratic efficiency and democratic legitimacy / Roland Erne -- Inventing the people : civil society participation and the enhabitation of the EU / Laura Cram -- The professionalisation of interest representation : a legitimacy problem for civil society in the EU? / Sabine Saurugger -- Business interest representation and legitimate European governance / Pieter Bouwen -- Civil society and European Governance : the interdisciplinary challenge of reflexive deliberative polyarchy / Stijn Smismans