Objective
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 movement organisations have competed 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.
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Participants (10)
75007 Paris
26222 Patras
48080 Bilbao
15701 Santiago De Compostela
1348 Louvain-la-neuve
141 04 Huddinge
1364 Budapest
CO4 3SQ Colchester
40 007 Katowice
FK9 4LA Stirling