twofold research agenda is mapped out: How does public participation work in different governance contexts? And what potential … literature on multi-level governance, policy implementation, public participation and complex systems, we develop five sets of … hypotheses on how the number of policy levels and geographical rescaling affect citizen participation, actor interests and policy …

Participation is said to improve decisions on environmental conflicts. When investigating 16 case studies of …: many different forms of participation can be observed, only few of them are well-defined and well organised; most of them … layer of complexity on how to organise participation. The empirical account of whether deliberation can deliver what it …

.The immediate priority is therefore to ensure that EU citizen level participation appear prominently in the agenda of the new …

of citizen participation to EU decision-making is due to the design, nature and practice of those instruments more than … fostering citizen participation beyond elections. Such a space may give birth to alternative, unconventional forms of … participation capable of channeling citizens’ pluralistic and increasingly chaotic input into the political conversation to bring …