Europeanisation as Empowerment of Civil Society: All Smoke and Mirrors?
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This paper explores the impact of the EU on civil society in domestic public accountability contests. Evidence drawn from three case studies of public policy involving an actual member-State (the UK), a new member-State (leading candidate for accession at the time of writing) (the Czech Republic), and a poorly performing candidate (Romania) support the conclusion that the EU empowers domestic actors in such ways as to reinforce the existing power differential between the government and the public holding that government to account. This finding seems to hold true regardless of whether the public is organized or dispersed, or is civically competent or not. Domestic government, by reason of its centrality in the domestic political arena, already wields a wide panoply of tools, and so it is better placed than the public to take advantage of whatever tools the EU furnish, and overmatch the empowerment of the public by the EU’s public accountability tools (such as the Environmental Impact Assessment).
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تاریخ انتشار 2006