Journal of Civil Society
Volume 3 – Issue 3 – December  2007

This issue of the Civil Society Journal has been organised by Beate Kohler-Koch and Barbara Finke. It contains contributions that originate from two CONNEX workshops of Research Group 4.
 

Table of Contents:

Beate Kohler-Koch, Barbara Finke: "The Institutional Shaping of EU-Society Relations: A Contribution to Democracy via Participation?"

Thomas Persson: "Democratizing European Chemicals Policy: Do Consultations Favour Civil Society Participation?"

Joan O'mahony, Clare Coffey: "From Civic Choice to Civic Voice: the Changing Role of Society in European Fisheries Governance"

Rosa Sánchez-Salgado: "Giving a European Dimension to Civil Society Organizations"

Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán: "The Convention Experience: Between Rhetoric and Participation"

Patrycja Daogonbrowska: "Civil Society Involvement in the EU Regulations on GMOs: From the Design of a Participatory Garden to Growing Trees of European Public Debate"

Jan Aart Scholte: "Civil Society and the Legitimation of Global Governance"

Netherlands Yearbook of International Law - 2005
Volume XXXVI – 2005 – The Hague  2007

 

Table of Contents:

Conceptualizing accountability in international and European law
Deirdre Curtin and André Nollkaemper

International legal accountability through the lens of the law of state responsibility
Jutta Brunnée

Responding to the undesired. state responsibility, risk management and precaution
Wouter G. Werner

Making sense of accountability in international institutional law
Ige F. Dekker

Accountability of international organizations according to national law
August Reinisch

Does one size fit all?: The European Community and the responsibility of international organizations
Esa Paasivirta and Pieter Jan Kuijper

Which form of accountable government for the European Union?
Walter van Gerven

Journal of European Integration
Volume 29 – Number 3 – July 2007-09-27

Special Issue:
Democratic Legitimacy and the European Union

Guest Editor: Ronald Holzhacker

Table of Contents:

Beate Kohler Koch: Preface: The Quest for Democratic Legitimacy

Ronald Holzhacker: Democratic Legitimacy and the European Union

Tobias Auberger / Krzysztof Iszkowski: Democratic Theory and the European Union: Focusing on 'Interest' or 'Reason'?

Moa Mårtensson: Mixed Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union

Edwin Vink: Multi-level Democracy: Deliberative or Agonistic? The Search for Appropriate Normative Standards

Patrick Bijsmans / Christina Altides: 'Bridging the Gap' between EU Politics and Citizens? The European Commission, National Media and EU Affairs in the Public Sphere

Frank M. Häge / Michael Kaeding: Reconsidering the European Parliament's Legislative Influence: Formal vs. Informal Procedures

Elissaveta Radulova: The OMC: An Opaque Method of Consideration or Deliberative Governance in Action?

Antje Wiener: Comment: Analysing Democratic Legitimacy Collaboratively

Niznik, Józef / Ryabinska, Natalya (Ed.s) (2007):

Political Accountability: Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Dimensions.

Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Table of Contents:

Józef Niznik: Introduction. Theoretical and Practical Dimensions of Accountability

Toma Burean: Political Accountability and Representation

Radoslaw Markowski: Political Accountability and Representation: Theoretical Assumptions vs Empirical Measurement

Michal Sitek: The Meaning of Accountability in Parliament-Government Relations. The Case of European Policy in Poland

Kerstin D. Wilde: Democratic standards and the Definition of Accountability: the Case of the Lobbying-Regulation in the European Parliament.

Krysztof Iszkowski: Towards Re-Conceptualisation of Accountability? Some Arguments Against ‘Principal-Agent’ Model and in Favour of the Descriptive Approach

Vassilka Mireva: ‘Accountability’, ‘Responsibility’, ‘Transparency’: Meaning and Usage of Some Basic Terms Related to the Notion of ‘Democracy’ in Modern Bulgarian Political Language

Natalya Ryabinska: Media and Accountability in Post-Communist State: Ukrainian Media at the Turn of the Century

Olimpia Resteman: The Role of Civil Society in the Transparency of Local Governments

Morten Kinander: The Accountability Function of Courts: a Methodological Framework for Inquiry

Journal of Comparative European Politics:

Special Issue:
"Contested Meanings of Norms - The Challenge of Democratic Governance Beyond the State"

guest edited by:
Antje Wiener

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Social Capital and Governance:

Old and New Members
of the EU in Comparison.
With a Preface by Thomas Luckmann

edited by:
Frane Adam

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CAMBRIDGE University Press

-Special Issue-

Journal of Public Policy, Volume 27, Part 1 Ja.-Apr. 2007

Articles:

Andreas Dür and Dirk de Bièvre: The Question of Interest Group Influence

Sebastiaan Princen: Advocacy Coalitions and the Internationalisation of Public Health Policies

Christine Mahoney: Lobbying Success in the United States and the European Union

Cornelia Woll: Leading the Dance? Power and Political Resources of Business Lobbyists

Andreas Dür and Dirk de Bièvre: Inclusion without Influence? NGOs in European Trade Policy 

Multilevel Governance:

Patterns and Degrees of Political Integration.

The EU Eastern Enlargement Challenge.

edited by:

J. Niznik

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