Civil society participation in European and global governance :

Civil society participation in European and global governance : a cure for the democratic deficit? / edited by Jens Steffek, Claudia Kissling and Patrizia Nanz. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - xvii, 244 p. ; 22 cm. - Transformations of the state .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.

Emergent patterns of civil society participation in global and European governance / Jens Steffek and Patrizia Nanz -- The evolution of CSOs' legal status in international governance and its relevance for the legtitamacy of international organizations / Claudia Kissling -- Civil society participation under most favourable conditions: assessing the deliberative quality of the WSIS / Charlotte Dany -- The ILO, tripartism, and NGOs: do too many cooks really spoil the broth? / Lars Thomann -- Civil society participation at the margins: the case of the WTO / Jens Steffek and Ulrike Ehling -- Civil society participation in international security organizations: the cases of NATO and the OSCE / Peter Mayer -- Democratic aspiration meets political reality: participation of organized civil society in selected European policy processes / Dawid Friedrich -- Participatory strategies in the regulation of GMO products in the EU / Maria Paola Ferretti -- Assessing the legitimacy of European regional policy: the interplay of civil society and state actors in Sweden and Germany / Jan-Handrik Kamlage -- CSOs and the democratization of international governance: prospects and problems / Claudia Kissling and Jens Steffek.

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Political participation--European Union countries.
International organization.
Civil society.

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