Dalferthian tidbits

Disclaimer: I am a founding member of the European Institute for Public Participation and currently work fo it as a project leader. In January 2009 we have founded a new institution, the European Institute for Public Participation. We have set up a website at www.participationsinstitute.org, but currently there is very little information online. The EIPP [...]

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Public participation exercises are getting more numerous. There are a huge number of citizen budgets all over Europe and online Pep-Net keeps an eye on what is happening. There are sites where practitioners can exchange best practice, such as ePractice, or projects which provide help in designing public particpiaton processes. The best one of the [...]

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I have to write a project report on the uses of public participation in Europe. While I have done my reserach on western Europe, in particular Germany, the UK and Italy (with a bit of France thrown in), I have not looked very hard at central and eastern Europe. This is what I am up [...]

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Yesterday the Bertelsmann Foundation organised a very interesting conference on better regulation. In general this is a very laudable undertaking and the experiences reported are promising in parts and less promising in others. In the afternoon, there was a session on public participation in the German political system. Finding this panel in such a conference [...]

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The problem of institutional structures in EU security and their persisting differences continues to haunt me. Well sort of. Moitz and I got some comments on our paper, which we presented in San Francisco at the ISA in March They led us to reconsider our arguments and substantiate it with a different take on the [...]

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