Civil Society Involvement in the EU Regulations on GMOs: From the Design of a Participatory Garden to Growing Trees of European Public Debate

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The European Commission's Online Consultations: A Success Story?

“…Up to now only little is known about OC. Many studies more broadly analyse e‐participation (see, e.g., Boucher, 2008; Tomkova, 2009) or, more specifically, public participation in the context of science and technology, with the case of GMO (genetically modified organism) products being a regular example (Dabrowska, 2007; Felt and Fochler, 2008; Ferretti and Lener, 2008; Steffek and Ferretti, 2009). The still small number of case studies focusing explicitly on OC offers a rather mixed picture, not least due to different foci (see, e.g., Bozzini, 2007; Hüller, 2008a; Persson, 2007).…”

Participatory Governance in the EU

“…Kohler-Koch and Finke 2007). Examples of such cases include GMO (genetically modified organisms) regulation (Skogstad 2003;Dabrowska 2007), the Constitutional Convention (Pérez-Solórzano Borragán 2007; Karlsson 2008) and experiences from social policy and the Open Method of Coordination (Büchs 2008). We could also turn, at this point, to more general research on "participatory engineering" in the EU (see, e.g., Kohler-Koch et al 2008).…”

The ‘Good European Citizen’ Congruence and Consequences of Different Points of View

“…Case studies of actual decision-making processes usually show that contacts are mainly concerned with the exchange of expertise in advisory bodies and written consultations (cf. Dąbrowska, 2007;Sánchez-Salgado, 2007). Smismans (2006: 18) speaks of a 'participatory myth' and characterises decision-making processes as 'y a narrow, opaque and technocratic process y. in a closed policy network'.…”