Citizenship and Democratic Innovations in Europe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karolewski, Ireneusz Paweł.

Contributor:

Herzberg, Carsten.

Series:

Critical European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--European Union countries.

Citizenship.

Political participation--European Union countries.

Political participation.

Democracy--European Union countries.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation, and examines how democratic innovations might change, or even consolidate, the existing contours of citizenship.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement Page

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on contributors

Introduction: Citizenship and democratic innovations in Europe

Perspectives on citizenship

Democratic innovations

The political map of democratic innovations

Democratic innovations and the hope of the democratic "radicals"

Liberal bureaucrats and the revival of democracy

Autocrats and democratic innovations

Rationale of the book

Contributions to the volume

Preliminary conclusions

References

Part 1: Conceptual debates

Chapter 1: Citizenship theory and democratic innovations

Introduction

Conditions of citizenship: Liberty, equality, and legality

The triple crisis of democracy: Participation, representation, and the rule of law

Why democratic innovations and citizenship?

The nonlinear nexus between democratic innovations and citizenship

Digital innovations and citizenship

The road ahead: Citizenship and democratic innovations

Conclusions

Chapter 2: Political trade-offs in governance between experts, politicians and citizens: A comparative study in Southern European countries

Do people want to participate?

Methodology: The political justification of political orders

Data

Why people think we face a political crisis

Reality test of alternative political orders of worth

Participation is not a way to bypass politicians

How may the political crisis be ended?

Conclusion: The new order of worth

Part 2: Deliberative approaches

Chapter 3: The French Citizen Climate Convention: Mini-publics and the un-deliberative democratic system

Introduction.

The acculturation of French public authorities to deliberation and random selection: The Hybrid Genealogy of the CCC

The civic impact of the CCC

A biased deliberation?

The citizens, the lobbyists, and the NGOs: Interests groups against deliberation?

When citizens cannot negotiate

Private interest groups strike back

Citizens and environmental organizations: A coalition to defend the convention's report

Diffusion and legitimation of deliberative democracy in French society

Notes

Chapter 4: Political representation of denizens

Background: Foreigner's councils in political representation of denizens in Germany

Theoretical framework: The political representation of politically marginalised groups

Four functions of descriptive representation

Data and methods

Analysis

Who and what is represented by KAV?

Who represents non-citizens in Frankfurt?

The four functions of descriptive representation

Deliberative function

Aggregative function

Empowerment function

Legitimacy function

Potential factors impeding the substantive representation of non-citizens

Chapter 5: Empowering citizens through democratic innovations: The case of Polish citizens' assemblies

Citizens' assemblies - Local, national, or global?

Deliberation or aggregation? A short history of democratic innovations in Poland

Citizens' assemblies in Poland as an example of self-learning processes

Poznań citizen's assembly

Conclusion

Funding

Part 3: Direct democracy

Chapter 6: Direct democracy integrity and referendums in Italy and Russia: The role of citizenship

Theory of direct democratic integrity and citizenship

Integrity DDI and citizenship

Italy

Fairness.

Media coverage

Campaign

Russia

Fairness

Media

Chapter 7: The European citizens' initiative: Another case for citizens' washing

Registration phase

Collection phase

Follow-up

Chapter 8: Democratic innovations in Serbia: In search for impact

Direct democracy: Referenda and people's initiatives

Participatory budgeting

E-democracy

ICT-based innovations

Deliberative innovations

Democratic innovations in Serbia: Key features

Part 4: Participatory budgeting

Chapter 9: The new wave of participatory budgeting in Eastern Germany: Discussing the shift from consultation to direct democracy

Background: Participatory budgets in Germany in the European context

Theoretical framework

Methods

Quantitative analysis: The spread of PB in Brandenburg

Qualitative analysis: The case of Potsdam

Discussing explanations for change

Logic of appropriateness

Concept of "isomorphic change"

Chapter 10: The national participatory budgeting in Portugal: Pursuing a transcalar vision of citizenship?

Enrooting PB in Portugal: Main tendencies and the legacy of COVID-19 pandemic

Deepening the Portuguese experience: A focus on the national participatory budgeting (OPP)

The OPP's architecture

Outputs, limits, and challenges of OPP, from the perspective of its new relaunch

Concluding remarks

Chapter 11: Democratic innovations in a hybrid space: Insights from participatory budgeting in Ukraine

Theoretical underpinning

H: In Ukraine, participatory budgeting has a significant and positive impact on democracy at the local level

Research design.

Local context

The PB impact: Results of the statistical analysis

Appendix 1: Metrics for measuring the impact of participatory budgeting on areas of local democracy

Variable operationalisation

Appendix 2: Initial data for statistical analysis of participatory budgeting in 24 Ukrainian regional centres (2015-2021)

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-044472-5

1-04-044474-1

1-003-52845-7

9781003528456

OCLC:

1535398670