Citizenship and Democratic Innovations in Europe

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86643-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Critical European Studies

This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation, and examines how democratic innovations might change, or even consolidate, the existing contours of citizenship.

Arguing that the nexus between research on citizenship and democratic innovations can be found in the praxis approach to citizenship, where citizenship can be framed as a realm of actions and practices, the book shifts the discussion from the institutional level into a more conceptual realm of analysis. Taking stock of the democratic innovations at the local level, the national level, and the EU-level, such as citizen assemblies, referendums, and participatory budgeting, the book further surveys and maps their contribution to the democratic quality of citizenship across various European countries.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of democratic innovations, citizenship studies, democratization, governance, and more generally public policy, and European Politics and Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herzberg, Carsten

Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Citizenship and democratic innovations in Europe  Part 1: Conceptual Debates  1. Citizenship theory and democratic innovations  2. Political trade-offs in governance between experts, politicians and citizens: A comparative study in Southern European countries  Part 2: Deliberative Approaches  3. The French Citizen Climate Convention: Mini-publics and the un-deliberative democratic system  4. Political representation of denizens  5. Empowering citizens through democratic innovations: The case of Polish Citizens’ Assemblies  Part 3: Direct Democracy  6. Direct democracy integrity and referendums in Italy and Russia: The role of citizenship  7. The European Citizens’ Initiative: Another case for Citizens’ Washing  8. Democratic innovations in Serbia: In search for impact  Part 4: Participatory budgeting  9. The new wave of participatory budgeting in eastern Germany: Discussing the shift from consultation to direct democracy  10. The national participatory budgeting in Portugal: Pursuing a transcalar vision of citizenship?  11. Democratic innovations in a hybrid space: Insights from participatory budgeting in Ukraine

Über Autor(innen)

Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski is Professor for Political Theory and Democracy Research at Leipzig University, Germany.

Carsten Herzberg is an expert adviser at the NGO ‘mitMachen’ in Potsdam, Germany, where he leads in Brandenburg projects on civic education and democracy for young people.