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      <field key="037" subkey="x">englisch</field>
      <field key="050" subkey="x">Forschungsbericht</field>
      <field key="076" subkey="">Politikwissenschaft</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="y">http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_134.pdf</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="z">Glogowski, Pawel - et al., The European Citizens' Initiative (pdf)</field>
      <field key="100" subkey="">Glogowski, Pawel</field>
      <field key="103" subkey="">European Commission, Bruxelles</field>
      <field key="104" subkey="a">Maurer, Andreas</field>
      <field key="107" subkey="">Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Bruxelles, and Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck</field>
      <field key="331" subkey="">The European Citizens' Initiative</field>
      <field key="335" subkey="">Chances, Constraints and Limits</field>
      <field key="403" subkey="">1. Ed.</field>
      <field key="410" subkey="">Wien</field>
      <field key="412" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien</field>
      <field key="425" subkey="">2013, April</field>
      <field key="433" subkey="">29 pp.</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien; Reihe Politikwissenschaft; 134</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="h">Pollak, Johannes (Ed.) ; Christian, Sarah (Assoc. Ed.)</field>
      <field key="461" subkey="">Political Science Series</field>
      <field key="517" subkey="c">from the Table of Contents: Historic and legal background; The procedure in a nutshell; What initiatives can be taken into</field>
      <field key="con" subkey="s">ideration?; Practice: Ongoing initiatives; Chances and limits; Conclusion; References;</field>
      <field key="542" subkey="">1605-8003</field>
      <field key="544" subkey="">IHSPW 134</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">European Citizens' Initiative</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">E-democracy</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Democracy in the EU</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">European demos</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">European civil society</field>
      <field key="753" subkey="">Abstract: In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of European Union citizenship under the Maastricht</field>
      <field key="Tre" subkey="a">ty in 1993, the year 2013 has been designated by the European Commission as the ‘European Year of Citizens’. The European</field>
      <field key="Cit" subkey="i">zen’s Initiative (ECI) – labelled by the Commission as a ‘direct gateway through which citizens can make their voices heard</field>
      <field key="in" subkey="B">russels’ - may emerge in the European awareness as a new appealing platform for policy-shaping and communication. The ECI,</field>
      <field key="thr" subkey="o">ugh its transnational vox civilis character, figures among the most important novelties in the Lisbon Treaty and in the long</field>
      <field key="run" subkey="">may facilitate and accelerate the bottom-up building of a European demos. The question is, however, whether the mechanism of</field>
      <field key="pan" subkey="-">European signature collection is strong enough to face the democratic challenges present in the EU, especially during the</field>
      <field key="ong" subkey="o">ing financial crisis.;</field>
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