Citizen participation in multi-level democracies /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2015. |
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| Description: | xiii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in territorial and cultural diversity governance, 2213-2570 ; volume 5 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10299964 |
Table of 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 Citizens
- 6. 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 State
- 13. 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 Law
- 18. Participation in EU Governance: A "Multi-Level" Perspective and a "Multifold" Approach
- Index