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Abstract:
This book explores the concept of ‘civil society’, which over recent years has been revived and introduced into the institutional debate within the EU. Significantly, EU institutions themselves have made reference to civil society and, on an academic plane, it has been argued that the debate on the legitimacy of European governance should value the role of civil society organisations.
Bringing together lawyers and political scientists, the book studies the role of civil society organisations in the multi-level context of European governance. Civil Society and Legitimate European Governance bridges the distance between normative suggestions, legal instruments and empirical analysis.
Providing original contributions to the research on European governance, this book will appeal to all scholars and students with an interest in European integration and European institutions.
Contents:
Introduction
1. Civil Society and European Governance: From Concepts to Research Agenda - Stijn Smismans
Part I: Democratic Theory, Civil Society and European Governance
2. Democracy in the European Union: Why and How Combine Representation and Participation? - Paul Magnette
3. Inclusive Governance? Civil Society and the Open Method of Co-ordination - Kenneth A. Armstrong
4. Civil Society and Legitimate Governance in a Flexible Europe: Critical Deliberativism as a Way Forward - Alex Warleigh
Part II: The Legal and Institutional Context
5. Group Litigation Before the European Court of Justice - Olivier De Schutter
6. Civil Society Organisations and Participatory Administration: A Challenge to EU Administrative Law? - Carol Harlow
7. When EU Civil Society Complains: Civil Society Organisations and Ombudsmanship at the European Level - Peter Bonnor
Part III: The Policy and Associate Context
8. European Institutions and the Policy Discourse of Organised Civil Society - Carlo Ruzza
9. Comparing Civil Society Participation in European Environmental Policy and Consumer Protection - Hubert Heinelt and Britta Meinke-Brandmaier
10. European Trade-Union Strategies: Between Technocratic Efficiency and Democratic Legitimacy - Roland Erne
11. Inventing the People: Civil Society Participation and the Enhabitation of the EU - Laura Cram
12. The Professionalisation of Interest Representation: A Legitimacy Problem for Civil Society in the EU? - Sabine Saurugger
13. Business Interest Representation and Legitimate European Governance - Pieter Bouwen
Conclusion
14. Civil Society and European Governance: The Interdisciplinary Challenge of Reflexive Deliberative Polyarchy - Stijn Smismans
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