NGOs represent a potential tool of putting good use of democracy. Civil society through NGOs is a permanent participant in the discussions on the proposed bills especially on the implications and the effects that they have over the population. Democracy is the rule of law when the legislature is...

Describes two examples (in France and in the US) of replication of the Danish procedure of the consensus conference for public participation in nanotechnology, and argues that emphasis on the evaluation of the participatory procedure should not be made at the expense of richer analysis of the...