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Citizens' Initiatives in Europe

Procedures and Consequences of Agenda-Setting by Citizens

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Editors:
  1. Maija Setälä

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Turku, Finland

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  2. Theo Schiller

    1. Department of Political Science, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

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Part of the book series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (CDC)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Theo Schiller, Maija Setälä
      Pages 1-14

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 260-262
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Turku, Finland

    Maija Setälä

  • Department of Political Science, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

    Theo Schiller

About the editors

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

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