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      <field key="037" subkey="x">englisch</field>
      <field key="050" subkey="x">E-Paper</field>
      <field key="076" subkey="">Politikwissenschaft</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="y">http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/lib/ep18.pdf</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="z">Boussaguet, Laurie - et al., Lay people’s Europe: A Critical Assessment of the First EU Citizens' Conferences (pdf)</field>
      <field key="100" subkey="">Boussaguet, Laurie</field>
      <field key="103" subkey="">Sciences Po, Paris</field>
      <field key="104" subkey="a">Dehousse, Renaud</field>
      <field key="107" subkey="">Sciences Po, Paris</field>
      <field key="200" subkey="b">(Connecting Excellence on European Governance (CONNEX) (Ed.))</field>
      <field key="204" subkey="b">(New Modes of Governance (NewGov) (Ed.))</field>
      <field key="331" subkey="">Lay people’s Europe: A Critical Assessment of the First EU Citizens' Conferences</field>
      <field key="335" subkey="">EUROGOV is funded by the EU's 6th Framework Programme, Priority 7</field>
      <field key="403" subkey="">1. Ed.</field>
      <field key="425" subkey="">2008, July</field>
      <field key="433" subkey="">23 pp.</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="">European Governance Papers; No. C-08-02</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="h">Begg, Iain (Ed.) ; Falkner, Gerda (Ed.) ; Scherhaufer, Patrick (Ed.) ; et al.</field>
      <field key="461" subkey="">EUROGOV</field>
      <field key="517" subkey="c">from the Table of Contents: Introduction; Citizens’ conferences (CCs) as an instrument of participatory democracy; Why Europe is</field>
      <field key="int" subkey="e">rested in a dialogue with lay people; The citizens’ conference experiments at the European level; Conclusion: how can Lay</field>
      <field key="Peo" subkey="p">le’s Participation make a difference?; List of References;</field>
      <field key="542" subkey="">1813-6826</field>
      <field key="544" subkey="">EP18</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Participation</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Deliberative democracy</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Policy analysis</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">European public sphere</field>
      <field key="753" subkey="">Abstract: Citizens’ conferences attempt to include citizens in the decisional and political process. Created to foster</field>
      <field key="del" subkey="i">beration and public debate on disputed issues, they place ordinary citizens in the spotlight and ask them to express their</field>
      <field key="vie" subkey="w">s, after having debated the issues with specialists. Whereas the conferences conducted in a domestic context have been well</field>
      <field key="ana" subkey="l">yzed, little attention has been given so far to the first attempts to replicate the experience at the European level, andto</field>
      <field key="the" subkey="">specific problems that may be encountered in so doing. Two main reasons have prompted the EU to pay interest to this</field>
      <field key="par" subkey="t">icipatory mechanism: functional reasons (the need to take position on a socio-technological controversy whose stakes are</field>
      <field key="con" subkey="t">roversial) and political legitimacy (the absence of a strong democratic legitimacy at the EU level). Based on an analysis of</field>
      <field key="the" subkey="">first two experiments organized in the EU, devoted to “the city of tomorrow” and to brain sciences respectively, thisarticle</field>
      <field key="arg" subkey="u">es that achieving such citizen deliberation is not without problems. In many respects, these problems point to the difficulty</field>
      <field key="ent" subkey="a">iled in the creation of a European public space: the elusive quest for a “European people”; the question ofrepresentation</field>
      <field key="acc" subkey="o">rding to the size of the countries; the issue of languages. At the same time, the main potential of this instrument may lie</field>
      <field key="in" subkey="i">ts cognitive impact, since the interpretations and knowledge surrounding the issues which are debate may influence both the</field>
      <field key="age" subkey="n">dasetting and the decision-making process.;</field>
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