WP14 Responsible

[UWE-44] - University of the West of England, Faculty of the Built Environment – Cities Research Centre (Bristol)

WP14 Responsible for Spread of Excellence

[UWE-44] - University of the West of England, Faculty of the Built Environment – Cities Research Centre (Bristol)

WP14 Objectives

This work package will explore different conceptions of citizenship and approaches to engaging citizens in policy making across EU member states. A number of questions that would be illuminated by comparison across the different conceptual traditions and experiences operating in EU countries:

• The relationship between representative and participatory democracy;
• The relationship between different forms of deliberative democracy and the extent to which different forms engage and are responsive to the citizen voice;
• Optimal ways of engaging citizens and the relative merits of individual and collective approaches in ‘empowering’ citizens to engage;
  
• What it is realistic to expect and how to engage citizens at different levels – incentives and motivation;
• How citizen views are channelled and represented in partnership forums, issues about gate-keeping and accountability;
• Tensions between cohesion and diversity – how the diversity of citizens’ voices is mediated and particularly how usually excluded groups are heard;
• Tensions between national and European citizenship.

WP14 Description of Work

Two linked seminars will develop a model of different approaches to engaging citizens in policy making across EU member states.

WP14 Participants

• [UWE-44] - University of the West of England, Faculty of the Built Environment – Cities Research Centre (Bristol)
• [ISF-29] - Institute for Social Research (Oslo)

WP14 Documents

For documents of this work package, please go to CINEFOGO Outcomes Database and type WP14 in the Search field.