and argument over the direction of the policy agenda. This aspect, which is ultimately the difference between a democracy … and an enlightened form of authoritarianism, is an essential element of even the ‘thinnest’ theories of democracy, yet is …

gap between the EU and its citizens, as materialised in the EU-discourse of participatory democracy. On the basis of an …. Furthermore, there is little empirical evidence that would confirm the normative expectations of deliberative democracy. …

democracy), before going on to assess the findings of recent empirical research on its effectiveness in terms of policy change …

participation constitutes the fundamental tenet of democracy; in others, democracy is closely linked to pluralism and the protection … Dutch democracy that are reflected in the democratic system? Five core principles are distinguished, each of which has been … institutionalised in various ways. The second question is: which ideas on democracy of key political thinkers of the 19th and early 20th …

Although we still celebrate the late twentieth-century ‘victory of democracy’, our understanding of what democracy … depoliticization. As the experience of the EU suggests, the combination of popular democracy and legitimacy is proving increasingly …