Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Klaus Eder

• Organisierte Zivilgesellschaft und Europäisches Regieren

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  Social movement-related organisations and their sympathisers can provide useful new ideas to the policy process. They can represent civil society at various levels of governance, and notably at the EU level where a lack of democratic accountability and of a direct referent in civil society can undermine their effectiveness. However, they encounter obstacles to an effective performance. Lack of sensibility to their advocacy may contribute to their neglect. Lack of resources may limit their effectiveness. We focus on their role in policy responses to recent social controversies in environmental, anti-racist and regional policy, where movementorganisations have competend for influence with other interests. Concentrating on two issues per policy field, we seek to examine their accountability and representativeness, their operating mechanisms and the factors that hinder or enable them at various levels of governance.

• Building the EU s social constituency: exploring the dynamics of public claims-making and collective representation in Europe I

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  The recently drafted constitution of the European Union raises the question of the relationship of the emerging European polity to its social constituency. In essence the underlying concern of a European social constituency ( the people or the public of the polity) lies in the plausibility and requisiteness of Europe as a demos . The normative expectation is that a constituted European polity requires such a demos, which is seen as the basis for the legitimacy of European governance. The empirical question is whether such a normative idea of Europe as a demos channels and guides collective action and public communication within and beyond the national boundaries of the EU-member states. The European constitution has set the standards for democratic and legitimate governance within the multi-level institutional framework of the EU. How do these constitutional arrangements co-evolve with the voice of potential European citizens? The aim of the project is to empirically assess the EU s social constituency and explain its role in the evolution of a legitimate political order in Europe.

• Building the EU's social constituency: exploring the dynamics of public claims-making and collective representation in Europe II

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  The recently drafted constitution of the European Union raises the question of the relationship of the emerging European polity to its social constituency. In essence the underlying concern of a European social constituency ( the people or the public of the polity) lies in the plausibility and requisiteness of Europe as a demos. The normative expectation is that a constituted European polity requires such a demos, which is seen as the basis for the legitimacy of European governance. The empirical question is whether such a normative idea of Europe as a demos channels and guides collective action and public communication within and beyond the national boundaries of the EU-member states. The European constitution has set the standards for democratic and legitimate governance within the multi-level institutional framework of the EU. How do these constitutional arrangements co-evolve with the voice of potential European citizens? The aim of the project is to empirically assess the EU's social constituency and explain its role in the evolution of a legitimate political order in Europe.

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