Civil society in EU governance: lobby groups like any other?

Beate Kohler-Koch and Vanessa Buth

No 108, TranState Working Papers from University of Bremen, Collaborative Research Center 597: Transformations of the State

Abstract: The involvement of civil society in EU governance is widely interpreted as a right step in the direction of participatory democracy. Civil society associations are expected to communicate the concerns of citizens to Brussels, to engage in public deliberation with EU decision makers and stakeholders alike and thus to contribute to the emergence of a transnational public sphere. The paper puts these high hopes under empirical scrutiny. As effective participation calls for professionalisation, public interest associations have adapted their organisational structures. Our data suggest that by doing so public interest associations face a dilemma: The more they succeed in having their voice heard, the less they function as democratic transmission belts.

Date: 2009
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