Citizenship and Democratic Innovations in Europe

<p>This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation and examines how democratic innovations might change or even consolidate the existing contours of citizenship.</p><p>Arguing that the nexus between research on citizenship and democratic innovations can be found in the praxis approach to citizenship where citizenship can be framed as a realm of actions and practices the book shifts the discussion from the institutional level into a more conceptual realm of analysis. Taking stock of the democratic innovations at the local level the national level and the EU-level such as citizen assemblies referendums and participatory budgeting the book further surveys and maps their contribution to the democratic quality of citizenship across various European countries.</p><p>This book is of key interest to scholars and students of democratic innovations citizenship studies democratization governance and more generally public policy and European Politics and Studies.</p><p><b>The Introduction Chapter 1 and Chapter 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at <a href=http://www.taylorfrancis.com>http://www.taylorfrancis.com</a> under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.</b></p>