Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the sha** of public libraries as an
infrastructure for a sustainable public sphere through a comprehensive literature review …

Why is the EU so reliant upon exchanges with interest organisations?-What safeguards
have been developed to prevent capture by special interests, and how effective are these …

In recent years a subtle change has taken place in the policy‐making machinery sha**
European integration. The traditional methods for producing collective European Union (EU) …

The EU has recently organised a series of 'citizen-centred'processes that may be indicative
of a new pattern in terms of democracy and participation. The article begins with this …

Theories of deliberative democracy are popular for their promise that in a deliberative polity,
democracy can realise both participatory politics and rational policies. However, they are …

Discourse analysis is one of the most widespread research approaches across the social
sciences, ranging from linguistics to sociology, anthropology and political science. Therefore …

In defiance of accounts which see the European Union (EU) as structurally incompatible with
democracy, the Lisbon Treaty set out the general right and specific means for citizens to …

This article suggests that we need to rethink the legitimacy of EU referenda by considering
them as democratic games with different groups of players, levels and rounds. Unlike most …

ABSTRACT A key aim of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) introduced in 2012 was to
promote transnational discussion and deliberation, but there is relatively little analysis of the …

In der vergleichenden Regierungslehre wird die „föderale Demokratie “nicht als
eigenständiger Typus betrachtet. Daher blieb auch das Verhältnis von Föderalismus und …