Civil society participation in EU governance

摘要: The debate on the European Union’s legitimacy crisis led to discovery of civil society in EU governance. With waning permissive consensus, politicians, bureaucrats, and academics shifted their attention towards input-oriented dimension democratic which results from authentic participation governance ‘by people’. Participatory democracy via involvement came be considered as a promising supplement representative entered documents such White Paper Governance draft Constitutional Treaty around turn millennium. However, origins current can also traced back interest group research has flourished since early 1980s ‘participatory governance’ that unfolded 1990s. These approaches are more concerned with effective political problem-solving output-dimension can, this point view, improved by stakeholder engagement. In fact, two scholars who refer ‘civil society’ do not necessarily mean same thing is even less obvious if journalists, politicians or public officials allude society. order enhance basis discussion, we should seek identify conceptions they rely on. This will help us understand where different arguments come from. Hence, essay seeks layers unfolding traditions thought academic advocates affairs currently draw basically distinguish between output-oriented explore contribution groups one hand interested participatory other.