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2. The Case for Citizen Participation in the European Union: A Theoretical Perspective on EU Participatory Democracy
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James Organ, Alberto Alemanno, Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC (GREGH), Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and HEC Paris Research Paper Series
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History ,Civil society ,Polymers and Plastics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,European Citizen Assembly ,Public administration ,Transparency ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Good governance ,Good Governance ,JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K1 - Basic Areas of Law/K.K1.K19 - Other ,Participatory Democracy ,Civic Empowerment ,Political science ,media_common.cataloged_instance ,European Question Time ,Accountability ,European Union ,Business and International Management ,European union ,Legitimacy ,media_common ,Open government ,Open Government ,advocacy ,JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law/K.K3.K33 - International Law ,Participation ,citizen lobbying ,Transparency (behavior) ,Democracy ,European Citizens Consultations ,Civil Society ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,democratic innovation - Abstract
Ten years after the introduction of participatory democracy as one of the democratic foundations of the European Union, this introductory chapter to "Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe" provides some theoretical background on the role citizens play, and should play, within the EU democratic system. As such, it offers a contribution about the place of citizen participation in the wider, ongoing debate about how to develop the EU’s democratic system in a post-pandemic Europe. It sets the scene for the subsequent chapters written, again, not only by academic scholars but also civil society advocates and practitioners from across Europe who experience on a daily basis the realities of EU citizen participation. Ultimately, this edited volume argues how Europe’s long-standing democracy challenge can be addressed through the emergence of a new model of EU citizen participation, and a set of democratic innovations emerging bottom-up across the continent. To do so, it offers a re-evaluation and systematisation of EU level citizen participation and its future development, which remains largely underexplored.
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- 2020
3. Beyond Consultations: Reimagining European Participatory Democracy
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Alemanno, Alberto, Haldemann, Antoine, Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC (GREGH), Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and HEC Research Paper Series
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Open Government ,JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law/K.K3.K33 - International Law ,Participation ,ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING ,European Citizen Assembly ,Transparency ,European Citizens Consultations ,JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K1 - Basic Areas of Law/K.K1.K19 - Other ,Good Governance ,Participatory Democracy ,Civic Empowerment ,Civil Society ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,European Question Time ,Accountability ,European Union ,[SHS.GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Legitimacy - Abstract
This paper provides a critical assessment of the realities of EU participatory democracy and offers a set of innovative democratic innovations capable of making the Union more responsive to public input. It argues that today’s limited effectiveness of citizen participation to EU decision-making is due to the design, nature and practice of those instruments more than to the inherent inability of citizens to participate. As such, it concludes, the democratizing potential of the EU participatory tool-box remains not only fundamentally misaligned with societal participatory expectations, but also largely untapped.The paper suggests that the time has come for the EU to create an enabling and collaborative political environment fostering citizen participation beyond elections. Such a space may give birth to alternative, unconventional forms of participation capable of channeling citizens’ pluralistic and increasingly chaotic input into the political conversation to bring citizens closer to our representatives and, moreover, doing so in-between elections and across countries. Thus, for instance, by centralising all public input in a one-stop-shop entailing the participation of all EU institutions, a European Question Time might crystallise and eventually connect the daily realities of Europeans with the day-to-day operation of their institutions. A European Democratic Jury of randomly selected citizens from all over the Union could further contribute to such an objective by ‘humanising’ the EU decision-making.While this participatory framework would not magically fix the European accountability deficit, it may compensate for that by making the system responsive to citizen-driven agenda-setting and monitoring and eventually making it more intelligible and accessible to the many.
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- 2018
4. Shining a Spotlight on EU Political Group Spending: Legal Guide on Access to Document Requests
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Vincent Chaudet, Connor Haynes, Alberto Alemanno, Kayla Wieche, Paige Morrow, Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC (GREGH), Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), HEC Research Paper Series, and Haldemann, Antoine
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Parliament ,Memorandum ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Common law ,Transparency ,Open Government ,Good Governance ,JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K1 - Basic Areas of Law/K.K1.K19 - Other ,Civic Empowerment ,Economics ,media_common.cataloged_instance ,Accountability ,European Union ,European union ,Legitimacy ,media_common ,Open government ,JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law/K.K3.K33 - International Law ,Participation ,Transparency (behavior) ,Law ,Civil Society ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,[SHS.GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration - Abstract
The purpose of this legal memorandum is to provide advice to organisations and individuals interested in submitting a request for public access to documents under Regulation (EC) No 1049/01 (“Regulation 1049/01”) to the European Parliament for documents related to the spending of political groups covered by Budget Item 400 appropriations under Chapter 7. Requests for those documents may face rejection on grounds related to exceptions provided for in Regulation 1049/01, specifically those found in Articles 4(1)b, 4(2), and 4(3) pertaining to privacy and integrity of the individual, commercial interests, and institution’s decision-making process respectively. This legal memorandum addresses the applicability of those exceptions to the documents requested for potential use in a confirmatory request to be submitted to the European Parliament subsequent to the initial rejection in line with Article 7 of Regulation 1049/01. The memo also provides arguments for overcoming these exceptions in light of: 1) recent developments in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) relating to the privacy exception; and 2) the strict legal requirements for triggering the commercial interests and institutional decision-making exceptions. The last section of the memo is structured to provide draft responses to the denial of requests for documents and should be tailored to the specific situation in question.
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- 2017
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