| Acronym |
EUROPUB |
| Title |
A European Public Space Observatory: Assembling Information that Allows the Monitoring of European Democracy |
| Co-ordinator |
ICCR, Vienna, Austria |
| Client |
European Commission, DG Research |
| Duration |
July 2001 - June 2004 |
| Contract Number |
HPSE-CT2001-00069 |
| Person Responsible |
Liana Giorgi |
| Project Website |
www.iccr-international.org/europub |
| Objectives |
The project will analyse to what extent current institutional constellations and socio-political practices provide an effective system of political constestations within a broader political structure with a genuinely European focus. On the conceptual level, EUROPUB will provide a functioning concept of a European public space that is in line with both the institutional policy realities of the EU and the state-of-the-art thinking in this area. On the substantive level, the project will provide and in-depth analysis of the institutional opportunity structures for contesting policy-making at the European level in selected policy areas. On the empirical/policy-relevant level, EUROPUB will devise and test a set of indicators that will monitor the development of a European public space. These indicators will allow the establishment of an observatory for European democracy. |
| Project Partners |
 Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI), France
Institute for International and European Environmental Policy (ECOLOGIC), Germany
University of Barcelona - Research Centre for Citizenship and Civil Society (CISC), Spain
University of Gothenburg - Inter-European Research (IER), Sweden
Queen Mary, University of London - Department of Politics, Great Britain
The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - Institute of Sociology (SOC), Czech Republic
Le Centre Interdisciplinaire pour la Recherche Comparative en Sciences Sociales (CIR), France |
