Citizens in Europe Civic Activism and the Community Democratic Experiment /

• Main Author: Moro, Giovanni (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Political science.; European Economic Community literature.; Social policy.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; European Integration.; Social Policy.

In the Community-building process, citizens are the most invoked and feared, but at the same time the least known subject. This lack of knowledge nourishes the citizens’ detachment from the European Union and itself emerged in well known cases such as the French and Dutch referenda on the Constituti...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Thematizations
• Chapter 1. Beyond the Nation-State Model
• Chapter 2. The Lab of European Citizenship
• Chapter 3. The Ambiguities of Participatory Democracy
• Part II: Policies
• Chapter 4. Public Institutions vis-a-vis Civic Organizations
• Chapter 5. The European Active Citizenship Rights and their Practice
• Chapter 6. The Question of Representation
• Chapter 7. The European Civic Movement for Patients' Rights
• Chapter 8. Citizens and Companies in Europe.