This paper contributes to the debate on the role of democratic participation in complex systems of governance. It takes … and global governance institutions shape concrete forms of participation. The paper shows that transnational activism … fragile institutionalization of civil society participation. However, the paper reveals a division between civil society …

.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 …