Citizen participation in multi-level democracies / Edited by Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle, Sabine Kropp, Francesco Palermo, Karl-Peter Sommermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraenkel-Haeberle, Cristina.

Series:

Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance 5.

Studies in territorial and cultural diversity governance, 2213-2570 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Representative government and representation--Europe.

Representative government and representation.

Federal government--Europe.

Federal government.

Democracy--Europe--Citizen participation.

Democracy.

Democracy--Citizen participation.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill Nijhoff, 2015.

Summary:

Citizen Participation in Multi-level Democracies offers an overview of new forms of participatory democracy in federally and regionally organised multi-level states. Its four sections focus on the conceptual foundations of participation, the implementation and instruments of democracy, examples from federal and regional States, and the emergence of participation on the European level. There is today a growing disaffection amongst the citizens of many states towards the traditional models of representative democracy. This book highlights the various functional and structural problems with which contemporary democracies are confronted and which lie at the root of their peoples’ discontent. Within multi-level systems in particular, the fragmentation of state authority generates feelings of powerlessness among citizens. In this context, citizens’ participation can in many cases be a useful complement to the representative and direct forms of democracy.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle , Sabine Kropp , Francesco Palermo and Karl-Peter Sommermann

Citizen Participation in Multi-Level Democracies: An Introduction / Karl-Peter Sommermann

Federalism and Democracy: Compatible or at Odds with One Another? Re-Examining a Tense Relationship / Arthur Benz and Jared Sonnicksen

Participation, Federalism and Pluralism: Challenges to Decision Making and Responses by Constitutionalism / Francesco Palermo

Federalism, People’s Legislation and Associative Democracy / Sabine Kropp

Forms of Democratic Participation in Multi-Level Systems / Anna Gamper

Direct and Representative Democracy: The Perspective of German Citizens / Oscar W. Gabriel

Perspectives on the Institutionalization of Citizen Participation at the Municipal Level: A First-Hand Report / Helmut Klages

E-Participation in Germany: New Forms of Citizen Involvement between Vision and Reality / Mario Martini and Saskia Fritzsche

Financing Popular Initiatives and Referendum Campaigns / Nadja Braun Binder

Participation and Administrative Procedure / Jutta Stender-Vorwachs

“Liquid Democracy”: Solution or Problem? / Margrit Seckelmann

Participatory democracy in Multi-Level States / Umberto Allegretti

Direct Democracy and Citizen Participation in the Austrian Federal State / Peter Bußjäger

Italian Regionalism: Participation and Plebiscitary Models / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle

Direct Democracy in the Swiss Federation / Zoltán Tibor Pállinger

The Referendum in the United Kingdom: Instrument for Greater Constitutional Legitimacy, Tool of Political Convenience, or First Step to Revitalize Democracy? / Sara Parolari and Jens Woelk

Laboratories of Democratic Innovation? Direct, Participatory, and Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Provinces and Municipalities / Karl Kössler

Towards the Europeanization of Participation? Reflecting on the Functions and Beneficiaries of Participation in eu Environmental Law / Birgit Peters

Participation in eu Governance: A “Multi-Level” Perspective and a “Multifold” Approach / Delia Ferri

Index / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle , Sabine Kropp , Francesco Palermo and Karl-Peter Sommermann.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-28794-9

OCLC:

907783205

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004287945 DOI