Forschungsbericht | Research report
The European Citizens' Initiative - Chances, Constrains and Limits
In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of European Union citizenship under the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, the year 2013 has been designated by the European Commission as the 'European Year of Citizens'. The European Citizen's Initiative (ECI) - labelled by the Commission as a 'direct gateway through which citizens can make their voices heard in Brussels' - may emerge in the European awareness as a new appealing platform for policy-shaping and communication. The ECI, through its transnational vox civilis character, figures among the most important novelties in the Lisbon Treaty and in the long run may facilitate and accelerate the bottom-up building of a European demos. The question is, however, whether the mechanism of pan-European signature collection is strong enough to face the democratic challenges present in the EU, especially during the ongoing financial crisis.
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1605-8003
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Seite(n): 34
- Language
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Englisch
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
- Bibliographic citation
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Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft (134)
- Subject
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Politikwissenschaft
Europapolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Bürger
Bürgerbeteiligung
Europäische Kommission
EU-Politik
Zivilgesellschaft
Lissabon-Vertrag
direkte Demokratie
EU
politische Partizipation
Bürgerinitiative
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Glogowski, Pawel
Maurer, Andreas
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Veröffentlichung
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Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
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Österreich, Wien
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2013
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-339658
- Rights
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Last update
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST
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Object type
- Forschungsbericht
Associated
- Glogowski, Pawel
- Maurer, Andreas
- Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
Time of origin
- 2013