TY - BOOK AU - Kohler-Koch,Beate AU - Quittkat,Christine TI - De-mystification of participatory democracy: EU-governance and civil society SN - 9780191756221 (ebook) : AV - JN40 U1 - 323.042094 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Political participation KW - European Union countries KW - Democratization N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This text tackles the issue of civil society's democratic input to EU governance. It looks at how participatory democracy, laid down in the Lisbon Treaty and advocated by the Commission, is put into practice and whether the involvement of civil society lives up to the high expectation of upgrading the Union's democratic legitimacy UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674596.001.0001 ER -