Citizens' Initiatives in Europe
ISBN:
9781349340149
Auflage:
1st ed. 2012
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan UK
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2012
Herausgeber:
Reihe:
Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
262
An exploration and analysis of the regulation and practices of citizens' initiatives in eleven European democracies and the EU. The contributors to this volume shed light on how citizens' initiatives influence patterns of political agenda-setting in representative democracies and how they can contribute to participatory democracy.
Schlagwörter
Biografische Anmerkung
DAUNIS AUERS Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science at the University of Latvia
VÍCTOR CUESTA Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
KARIM GIESE Assistant Professor for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University Salzburg, Spain, Austria
BRUNO KAUFMANN Co-founder and President of the Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe and member of the City Government in Falun, Sweden
ALGIS KRUPAVICIUS Professor and Director of Policy and Public Administration Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
ERIK LÁ TIC Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
GEORG LUTZ Project Director of the Swiss Electoral Studies (Selects) at the Social Science Research Centre FORS, Lausanne, Sweden
WILFRIED MARXER Director and Head of the Department of Political Sciences at the Liechtenstein Institute, Bendern, Liechtenstein
ZOLTÁN TIBOR PÁLLINGER Associate Professor for Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of International Relations, Andrássy German-Speaking University Budapest, Hungary
ANNA RYTEL-WARZOCHA Senior Research and Teaching Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdansk, Poland
THEO SCHILLER Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Philipps University Marburg Germany
MAIJA SETÄLÄ Academy Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Turku in Finland
PIERVINCENZO ULERI Researcher in Political Science at the 'Cesare Alfieri', University of Florence, Italy









