Civil society and democracy in the EU: high expectations under empirical scrutiny / Beate Kohler-Koch -- Governing with the European civil society / Beate Kohler-Koch -- Involving civil society in EU governance: the consultation regime of the European Commission / Christine Quittkat and Beate Kohler-Koch -- Consultation in daily practice: an in-depth analysis / Christine Quittkat -- New instruments serving democracy: Do online constitutions benefit civil society? / Christine Quittkat -- The balancing act of European civil society: between professionalism and grass roots / Beate Kohler-Koch and Vanessa Buth -- Information strategies of organized civil society: does anyone listen? / Christina Altides -- Civil society participation: more democracy or pluralization of the European lobby? / Beate Kohler-Koch
Summary
This text 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 practice and whether the involvement of civil society lives up to the high expectation of upgrading the Union's democratic legitimacy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed July 22, 2013)
