Modern Transnational Democracy: How the 2012 Launch of the European Citizens' Initiative Can Change the World

This book examines the introduction of the European Citizens' Initiative, which is the first transnational participative instrument ever and is a milestone in the history of democracy. From now on, citizens have the same rights as nation-states and national parliaments to be the political agenda-setters on the supranational level. Contents include: The European Citizens' Initiative Challenge: A Useful and Necessary Exercise for Everybody
• ECI Job Done? Challenges Ahead!
• The Citizens' Participatory Democracy's "Holistic" Architecture beyond the ECI
• A European Citizens' Senate Online
• The European Citizens' Initiative: An Instrument Rather of Deliberative Than of Participatory Democracy?
• ELIANT: An Initiative for Citizens' Freedom of Choice and Diversity of Lifestyle in Europe
• Give the ECI a Chance
• ECI Conference, Vienna
• A RESCUE Concept for the ECI: Making It a Success Story
• Reinventing Ideas and Approaches to Pan-European Direct Democracy
• EU in the Vanguard of Democratic Development
• European Citizens' Initiative: Green' Statement on the 2011 ECI-Summit
• Legal Admissibility
• National Challenges to a Transnational Participatory Instrument
• ECI and the Member States: The Austrian Perspective
• Deliberatively Enhanced European Citizens' Initiative
• ECI: Can ECIs Work? Will ECIs Work? Reflections from a CSO Perspective
• What Can Citizens Initiate?