Citizen participation in multi-level democracies / / Edited by Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle, Sabine Kropp, Francesco Palermo, Karl-Peter Sommermann.

• Superior document: Studies in territorial and cultural diversity governance, v. 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Fraenkel-Haeberle, Cristina.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Citizen Participation in Multi-Level Democracies: An Introduction /; Federalism and Democracy: Compatible or at Odds with One Another? Re-Examining a Tense Relationship /; Participation, Federalism and Pluralism: Challenges to Decision Making and Responses by Constitutionalism /; Federalism, People’s Legislation and Associative Democracy /; Forms of Democratic Participation in Multi-Level Systems /; Direct and Representative Democracy: The Perspective of German Citizens /; Perspectives on the Institutionalization of Citizen Participation at the Municipal Level: A First-Hand Report /; E-Participation in Germany: New Forms of Citizen Involvement between Vision and Reality /; Financing Popular Initiatives and Referendum Campaigns /; Participation and Administrative Procedure /; “Liquid Democracy”: Solution or Problem? /; Participatory democracy in Multi-Level States /; Direct Democracy and Citizen Participation in the Austrian Federal State /; Italian Regionalism: Participation and Plebiscitary Models /; Direct Democracy in the Swiss Federation /; The Referendum in the United Kingdom: Instrument for Greater Constitutional Legitimacy, Tool of Political Convenience, or First Step to Revitalize Democracy? /; Laboratories of Democratic Innovation? Direct, Participatory, and Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Provinces and Municipalities /; Towards the Europeanization of Participation? Reflecting on the Functions and Beneficiaries of Participation in eu Environmental Law /; Participation in eu Governance: A “Multi-Level” Perspective and a “Multifold” Approach /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004287949
• ISSN: 2213-2570
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edited by Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle, Sabine Kropp, Francesco Palermo, Karl-Peter Sommermann.

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 federal and regional States, and the emergence of participation on the European level. There is today a growing disaffection amongst the citizens of many states towards the traditional models of representative democracy. This book highlights the various functional and structural problems with which contemporary democracies are confronted and which lie at the root of their peoples’ discontent. Within multi-level systems in particular, the fragmentation of state authority generates feelings of powerlessness among citizens. In this context, citizens’ participation can in many cases be a useful complement to the representative and direct forms of democracy.