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  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
    Subsection 1.The theory of federation
    Fraenkel-Haeberle Cristina, Kropp Sabine, Palermo Francesco, Sommermann Karl-Peter (eds.)
    Citizen Participation in Multi-level Democracies
    Ed. Brill , Leiden , 2015
    Page XIV-378
    ISBN 9789004287938
    Citizen Participation in Multi-level Democracies offers an overview of new forms of participatory democracy in federally and regionally organised multi-level states. Its four sections focus on the conceptual foundations of participation, the implementation and instruments of democracy, examples from federal and regional States, and the emergence of participation on the European level. There is today a growing disaffection amongst the citizens of many states towards the traditional models of representative democracy. This book highlights the various functional and structural problems with which contemporary democracies are confronted and which lie at the root of their peoples’ discontent. Within multi-level systems in particular, the fragmentation of state authority generates feelings of powerlessness among citizens. In this context, citizens’ participation can in many cases be a useful complement to the representative and direct forms of democracy.
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    Series: Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance n. 5
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