Governance and civil society in the European Union – volume 1

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Contributors to this volume address important issues about the terms of representation in politics beyond the state. If the traditional structures of the national state are no longer the ideal or sole ‘container’ of political life, how can we ensure that interests and demands can have access to decision-making? One possible advantage is that new opportunities may open up for parts of civil society whose previous access to political power was circumscribed. The central focus of the volume is on the extent to which governance, and all it implies for new forms of governing, addresses as well as raises issues about the legitimate basis for democratic rule beyond the boundaries of the state.

The volume relates to the interests of political philosophers and policy analysts interested in issues of legitimacy and representation in the European Union.

Introduction – The unequal sides of a triangle: democracy, civil society and governance – Vincent Della Sala

1. Democratic values, political legitimacy and European governance – Albert Weale

2. The European Union and the democratic limits of governance – Myrto Tsakatika

3. On the path to legitimacy? The EU Citizens’ Initiative right from a critical deliberativist perspective – Alex Warleigh

4. Political theory and the misfit of civil society organisations in European governance; reflexive-deliberative polyarchy as shoe-lift – Stijn Smismans

5. A transnational space of contention? patterns of europeanisation of civil society in Germany – Hans-Jörg Trenz

6. The EU’s civil society from a normative-democratic point of view: the case of the EU’s migration policy – Dawid Friedrich and Patrizia Nanz

Conclusion – Carlo Ruzza and Vincent Della Sala

Vincent Della Sala is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Trento

Carlo Ruzza is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento

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