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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.

The European Citizens' Initiative - Chances, Constrains and Limits

Urheber*in: Glogowski, Pawel; Maurer, Andreas

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ISSN
1605-8003
Extent
Seite(n): 34
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft (134)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
Europapolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Bürger
Bürgerbeteiligung
Europäische Kommission
EU-Politik
Zivilgesellschaft
Lissabon-Vertrag
direkte Demokratie
EU
politische Partizipation
Bürgerinitiative

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Glogowski, Pawel
Maurer, Andreas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
(where)
Österreich, Wien
(when)
2013

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-339658
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST

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  • Forschungsbericht

Associated

  • Glogowski, Pawel
  • Maurer, Andreas
  • Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien

Time of origin

  • 2013

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