Democratic Participation? The Involvement of Citizens in Policy-making at the European Commission
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12944014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Fischer-Hotzel (FernUniversität in Hagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-352 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary European Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1815-347X • E-ISSN: 1815-347X |
| Publisher | UACES (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.30950/jcer.v6i3.314 |
| OpenAlex | W1545190084 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 22 |
In recent years, the European Commission has increasingly promoted citizens’ participation and has linked it to participatory democracy. The article analyses whether recent apparently participatory citizens’ projects qualify as participatory democracy in the normative theoretical sense. Being aware that the European Union’s, and therefore the Commission’s, understanding are much less demanding, it also asks to what degree the Commission’s own objectives were met. For this purpose, both the normative concept based on secondary literature and the empirical concept based on an analysis of the pertinent EU and Commission documents and communications will be introduced as points of reference for the discussion of the citizens’ projects. By analysing online documentation of the projects, the article will show that the projects neither meet normative standards nor the Commission’s own objectives and that participatory democracy in the EU faces important practical constraints
Business · Citizen journalism · Commission · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · democratic deficit · Documentation · European commission · European union · Normative · Participatory democracy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2019 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |