Their Members’ Voice Civil Society Organisations in the European Union /

• Main Author: Rodekamp, Meike (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2014.
• Subjects: Political science.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.

The role of civil society organisations in Brussels is debated. Some view them as representatives of their members and thus as legitimising agents for policy-making in the European Union. Others see them as being elitist and out of touch with their membership bases, therefore ill-suited to promote d...

Table of Contents:

• The Representative Role of Civil Society Organisations in Democracy
• Methods, Case Selection, and the Civil Society Organisation Sample
• The Formal and the Relational Dimension of Civil Society Organisation Representativeness.