De-Mystification of Participatory Democracy - Kohler-Koch, Beate (Professor Emeritus, project director MZES, University of Mannheim) a Quittkat, Christine (Post-doctoral Researcher, project director MZES, University of Mannheim)

This book tackles the issue of civil society's democratic input to EU governance. It looks at how participatory democracy, laid down in the Lisbon Treaty and advocated by the Commission, is put into practice and whether the involvement of civil society lives up to the high expectation of upgrading the Union's democratic legitimacy.