Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and
governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in …

Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no
formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically …

At the beginning of the 1990s a new discourse emerged at the European Union level,
insisting on the necessity of 'civil society'participation in decision‐making processes. Based …

How should we theorize and normatively assess those individual and collective actors who
claim to represent others for political purposes, but do so without the electoral authorization …

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In this discussion piece, eight scholars in geography, urban planning, and agri-food studies
from the United States (US) and France engage in a bi-national comparison to deepen our …

Concerns about climate change and energy security have been major arguments used to
justify the recent return of nuclear power as a serious electricity generation option in various …

Research on interest group participation in European Union politics has mushroomed since
the end of the 1990s. What role citizens should play in the political process–should they …

The interaction between organised interests and policy makers is an important ingredient of
contemporary political systems. In earlier work, interest group scholars have distinguished …

Although research on political participation has consistently observed a robust and positive
relationship between education and political participation, there is fairly little systematic …