This working paper examines the connection between social movements, active citizenship, and democratic innovation. The paper defines the terms of social movements and active citizenship as a way to establish the categorical apparatus. It then, briefly, analyses literature on social movements as democratizing agents as well as some reasons for the reemergence of social movements […]

The second Working paper “Democratic innovations: an overview of approaches and tools” aims to develop a conceptual and methodological framework of democratic innovations, that could be useful for countries with few or no experience in the topic, by: –  Exploring the international theoretical and empirical literature on the existent approaches to citizen involvement in policy-making; –  Creating […]