Citizen participation in multi-level democracies / / 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...

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Superior document:Studies in territorial and cultural diversity governance, v. 5
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle , Sabine Kropp , Francesco Palermo and Karl-Peter Sommermann
  • Citizen Participation in Multi-Level Democracies: An Introduction / Karl-Peter Sommermann
  • Federalism and Democracy: Compatible or at Odds with One Another? Re-Examining a Tense Relationship / Arthur Benz and Jared Sonnicksen
  • Participation, Federalism and Pluralism: Challenges to Decision Making and Responses by Constitutionalism / Francesco Palermo
  • Federalism, People’s Legislation and Associative Democracy / Sabine Kropp
  • Forms of Democratic Participation in Multi-Level Systems / Anna Gamper
  • Direct and Representative Democracy: The Perspective of German Citizens / Oscar W. Gabriel
  • Perspectives on the Institutionalization of Citizen Participation at the Municipal Level: A First-Hand Report / Helmut Klages
  • E-Participation in Germany: New Forms of Citizen Involvement between Vision and Reality / Mario Martini and Saskia Fritzsche
  • Financing Popular Initiatives and Referendum Campaigns / Nadja Braun Binder
  • Participation and Administrative Procedure / Jutta Stender-Vorwachs
  • “Liquid Democracy”: Solution or Problem? / Margrit Seckelmann
  • Participatory democracy in Multi-Level States / Umberto Allegretti
  • Direct Democracy and Citizen Participation in the Austrian Federal State / Peter Bußjäger
  • Italian Regionalism: Participation and Plebiscitary Models / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle
  • Direct Democracy in the Swiss Federation / Zoltán Tibor Pállinger
  • The Referendum in the United Kingdom: Instrument for Greater Constitutional Legitimacy, Tool of Political Convenience, or First Step to Revitalize Democracy? / Sara Parolari and Jens Woelk
  • Laboratories of Democratic Innovation? Direct, Participatory, and Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Provinces and Municipalities / Karl Kössler
  • Towards the Europeanization of Participation? Reflecting on the Functions and Beneficiaries of Participation in eu Environmental Law / Birgit Peters
  • Participation in eu Governance: A “Multi-Level” Perspective and a “Multifold” Approach / Delia Ferri
  • Index / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle , Sabine Kropp , Francesco Palermo and Karl-Peter Sommermann.