Inovativni oblici sudjelovanja građana kao doprinos smanjenju demokratskog deficita EU-a: studija slučaja Konferencije o budućnosti Europe

master's thesis

• Title (english): Innovative Forms of Citizen Participation as a Contribution to Reducing the Democratic Deficit of the EU: A Case Study of the Conference on the Future of Europe
• Author: Bartul Zemunik
• Mentor: Igor Vidačak (mentor)
• Committee member: Igor Vidačak (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Ana Matan (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Marjeta Šinko (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; The Faculty of Political Science; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2024-06-13, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science

Abstract

Participacija građana na razini EU počela se gledati kao sredstvo smanjenja demokratskog deficita u proteklih desetak godina. Demokratski deficit razvio se tijekom desetljeća svog egzistiranja, no vlasti u EU konstantno stvaraju nove mehanizme i ideje putem kojih se bore protiv ovog problema. Ovaj rad cilja istražiti kako su oblici sudjelovanja građana dosad utjecali na demokratski deficit EU. Rad je formiran kao dizajn studije slučaja, gdje je u fokusu Konferencija o budućnosti Europe. Ona je aktualni odgovor na problem istog deficita te se istražuje njen doprinos u tom području. Ova tema se istražuje naročito zbog toga što je Konferencija svjež mehanizam koji je slabo istražen i manjka literature u tom području. Riječ je o preglednom radu jer se bavi istraživanjem postojeće literature i za teorijski i metodološki dio rada. Teorijski dio pojasnio je nastanak i pojam demokratskog deficita i participacije. Također, prikazom najpoznatijih mehanizama participacije pokazano je da ne postoji još uvijek značajan uspjeh u rješavanju demokratskog deficita. Istraživački dio pokazuje kako je konferencija imala i dobre i loše strane utjecaja, ali bitnije da predstavlja osnovu za budućnost unaprjeđenje kvalitete sudjelovanja građana u kreiranju politika EU. Poslije konferencije su se već održali novi oblici participacije u obliku europskih građanskih panela što pokazuje da vlasti EU imaju želju kroz bolji dijalog s građanima prevladati problem demokratskog deficita.

Abstract (english)

Citizen participation at the EU level began to be seen as a means of reducing the democratic deficit in the past ten years. The democratic deficit has developed over the decades of its existence, but the authorities in the EU are constantly creating new mechanisms and ideas through which to fight this problem. This paper aims to investigate how forms of participation have affected the democratic deficit so far. The paper was formed as a case study design, where the focus is on the Conference on the Future of Europe. It is a current answer to the problem of the same deficit, and its contribution in that area is being investigated. This topic is researched especially because the Conference is a fresh mechanism that is poorly researched and there is a lack of literature in that area. It is a review work because it deals with the research of the existing literature for both the theoretical and methodological part of the work. The theoretical part explained the origin and concept of democratic deficit and participation. Also, by presenting the best-known mechanisms of participation, it was shown that there is still no significant success in solving the democratic deficit. The research part shows how the Conference had both good and bad effects, but more importantly that it represents the basis for the future of participation in the EU. After the conference, new forms of participation were already held in the form of European citizen panels which shows that the EU authorities have the desire to overcome the problem of democratic deficit through citizen participation.

• Keywords: demokratski deficit; participacija; mehanizmi participacije; konferencija; građani
• Keywords (english): democratic deficit; participation; participation mechanisms; conference; citizens
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:114:827336
• Study programme: Title: Political Science; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra politologije (magistar/magistra politologije)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2024-07-10 08:29:51