Civil society participation in EU governance

"Civil society participation in EU governance"

Barbara Finke

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	Output-oriented Approaches to Citizens’ Participation in the EU
	2.1	Governance and Participation
	2.2	New Trends in Interest Group Research
3	Conceptions of Civil Society and State-Society Relations
4	Civil Society and Participatory Democracy in EU Affairs
	4.1	The White Paper on Governance and Its Critics
	4.2	Democratizing the EU via Civil Society Participation
	4.3	Emergence of a European Civil Society?
5	Conclusion: Lessons Learned – Challenges Ahead
	References
	Footnotes