Civil society and legitimate european governance / ed. by Stijn Smismans

Based on a workshop organized at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris in May 2003

1. Civil society and European governance: from concepts to research agenda / Stijn Smismans PART I: DEMOCRATIC THEORY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE 2. Democracy in the European Union: why and how to combine representation and participation? / Paul Magnette 3. Inclusive governance? Civil society and the open method of co-ordination / Kenneth A. Armstrong 4. Civil society and legitimate governance in a flexible Europe: critical deliberativism as a way forward / Alex Warleigh PART II: THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT 5. Group litigation before the European Court of Justice / Olivier De Schutter 6. Civil society organisations and participatory administration: a challenge to EU administrative law? /Carol Harlow 7. When EU civil society complains: civil society organisations and ombudsmanship at the European level / Peter Bonnor PART III: THE POLICY AND ASSOCIATIVE CONTEXT 8. European institutions and the policy discourse of organised civil society / Carlo Ruzza 9. Comparing civil society participation in European environmental policy and consumer protection / Hubert Heinelt and Britla Meinke-Brandmaier 10. European trade-union strategies: between technocratic efficiency and democratic legitimacy / Roland Erne 11. Inventing the people: civil society participation and the enhabitation of the EU / Laura Cram 12. The professionalisation of interest representation: a legitimacy problem for civil society in the EU? / Sabine Saurugger 13. Business interest representation and legitimate European governance / Pieter Bouwen CONCLUSION 14. Civil society and European governance: the interdisciplinary challenge of reflexive deliberative polyarchy / Stijn Smismans

Based on a workshop organized at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris in May 2003.