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Citizens' Initiatives in Europe: Procedures and Consequences of Agenda-Setting by Citizens 2012th Edition
Author(s): M. Setälä (Editor), T. Schiller
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 13 Mar. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 276 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230319696
- ISBN-13: 9780230319691
Book Description
An exploration and analysis of the regulation and practices of citizens’ initiatives in eleven European democracies and the EU. The contributors to this volume shed light on how citizens’ initiatives influence patterns of political agenda-setting in representative democracies and how they can contribute to participatory democracy.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘An important contribution to the comparative literature on direct democracy. The growing use of initiatives and the coming into effect of the new European Citizens’ Initiative make this a particularly timely publication.’
– Lawrence LeDuc, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
‘This is an impressive book. It covers an obvious need and is written by the best experts within the field. A major contribution to our understanding of democracy in Europe.’
– Palle Svensson, Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
About the Author
DAUNIS AUERS Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science at the University of Latvia VÍCTOR CUESTA Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain KARIM GIESE Assistant Professor for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University Salzburg, Spain, Austria BRUNO KAUFMANN Co-founder and President of the Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe and member of the City Government in Falun, Sweden ALGIS KRUPAVICIUS Professor and Director of Policy and Public Administration Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania ERIK LÁ TIC Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia GEORG LUTZ Project Director of the Swiss Electoral Studies (Selects) at the Social Science Research Centre FORS, Lausanne, Sweden WILFRIED MARXER Director and Head of the Department of Political Sciences at the Liechtenstein Institute, Bendern, Liechtenstein ZOLTÁN TIBOR PÁLLINGER Associate Professor for Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of International Relations, Andrássy German-Speaking University Budapest, Hungary ANNA RYTEL-WARZOCHA Senior Research and Teaching Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdansk, Poland THEO SCHILLER Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Philipps University Marburg Germany MAIJA SETÄLÄ Academy Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Turku in Finland PIERVINCENZO ULERI Researcher in Political Science at the ‘Cesare Alfieri’, University of Florence, Italy
