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"Contents" [2006] ELECD 126; in Smismans, Stijn (ed), "Civil Society and Legitimate European Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Civil Society and Legitimate European Governance

Editor(s): Smismans, Stijn

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843769460

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Preface xi

INTRODUCTION

1 Civil society and European governance: from concepts to research
agenda 3
Stijn Smismans

PART I DEMOCRATIC THEORY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND EUROPEAN
GOVERNANCE

2 Democracy in the European Union: why and how to combine
representation and participation? 23
Paul Magnette
3 Inclusive governance? Civil society and the open method of
co-ordination 42
Kenneth A. Armstrong
4 Civil society and legitimate governance in a flexible Europe:
critical deliberativism as a way forward 68
Alex Warleigh

PART II THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT

5 Group litigation before the European Court of Justice 89
Olivier De Schutter

6 Civil society organisations and participatory administration:
a challenge to EU administrative law? 115
Carol Harlow

7 When EU civil society complains: civil society organisations and
ombudsmanship at the European level 141
Peter Bonnor


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PART III THE POLICY AND ASSOCIATIVE CONTEXT

8 European institutions and the policy discourse of organised
civil society 169
Carlo Ruzza
9 Comparing civil society participation in European environmental
policy and consumer protection 196
Hubert Heinelt and Britta Meinke-Brandmaier
10 European trade-union strategies: between technocratic efficiency
and democratic legitimacy 219
Roland Erne
11 Inventing the people: civil society participation and the
enhabitation of the EU 241
Laura Cram
12 The professionalisation of interest representation: a legitimacy
problem for civil society in the EU? 260
Sabine Saurugger
13 Business interest representation and legitimate European
governance 277
Pieter Bouwen

CONCLUSION

14 Civil society and European governance: the interdisciplinary
challenge of ...