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Citizen participation in multi-level democracies /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fraenkel-Haeberle, Cristina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill Nijhoff, 2015.
Colección:Studies in territorial and cultural diversity governance ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Citizen Participation in Multi-Level Democracies; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Citizen Participation in Multi-Level Democracies: An Introduction; PART 1: Conceptual Foundation; 1: Federalism and Democracy: Compatible or at Odds with One Another?: Re-Examining a Tense Relationship; 2: Participation, Federalism and Pluralism: Challenges to Decision Making and Responses by Constitutionalism; 3: Federalism, People's Legislation and Associative Democracy; 4: Forms of Democratic Participation in Multi-Level Systems; PART 2: Concretisation and Instruments of Democracy.
  • 5: Direct and Representative Democracy: The Perspective of German Citizens6: Perspectives on the Institutionalization of Citizen Participation at the Municipal Level: A First-Hand Report; 7: E-Participation in Germany: New Forms of Citizen Involvement between Vision and Reality; 8: Financing Popular Initiatives and Referendum Campaigns; 9: Participation and Administrative Procedure; 10: "Liquid Democracy": Solution or Problem?; PART 3: Examples from Federal and Regional States; 11: Participatory democracy in Multi-Level States.
  • 12: Direct Democracy and Citizen Participation in the Austrian Federal State13: Italian Regionalism: Participation and Plebiscitary Models; 14: Direct Democracy in the Swiss Federation; 15: The Referendum in the United Kingdom: Instrument for Greater Constitutional Legitimacy, Tool of Political Convenience, or First Step to Revitalize Democracy?; 16: Laboratories of Democratic Innovation? Direct, Participatory, and Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Provinces and Municipalities; PART 4: Emergence of Participation in European Affairs.
  • 17: Towards the Europeanization of Participation? Reflecting on the Functions and Beneficiaries of Participation in eu Environmental Law18: Participation in EU Governance: A "Multi-Level" Perspective and a "Multifold" Approach; Index.