"All About Doing Democracy"? : Participation and Citizenship in EU Projects
Mäkinen, K. (2018). "All About Doing Democracy"? : Participation and Citizenship in EU Projects. In C. Wiesner, A. Björk, H.-M. Kivistö, & K. Mäkinen (Eds.), Shaping Citizenship : A Political Concept in Theory, Debate, and Practice (pp. 190-205). Routledge. Conceptualising Comparative Politics, 9. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315186214-15
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Participation, citizenship and democracy form a triad consisting of multiple
conceptual and practical links in political life and theory. The popularity of the concept of
participation and various participatory practices is growing, and in the administration of the
European Union, one way of increasing participation is the EU programmes through which
funding is distributed for citizens’ co-operation across the member states in different fields.
The chapter investigates conceptualisations of participation at the level of individual projects
funded by two EU programmes, Europe for Citizens and Culture, in the programme period
2007-2013. Union citizenship as a conceptual change and a political innovation embodies the
complexity of citizenship, and EU projects like these can be seen as attempts to give practical
contents for the concept of Union citizenship.
The chapter seeks to analyse the conceptions of citizenship produced through the conceptual
choices related to participation made in the textual material of the selected EU projects.
Particular attention is paid to the links built between participation, citizenship and democracy.
Such an analysis provides a practical level contribution to the debate on the quantity and
quality of democracy in the context of the emerging EU polity. Analysing EU projects is
useful for exploring the extent to which the participatory practices organized by the EU
administration may create spaces for new forms of democracy.
The conceptual reading of the project texts shows that participation is primarily
conceptualised as networking, cooperation and exchanging information. Such activities can be
seen as prerequisites for democratic action, but this understanding of participation does not
seem to meet the ideas of republican, radical, participatory or input types of democracy. It
also lacks many of the forms of participation that are generally viewed as central for
democracy. This represents a depoliticised conception of both participation and citizenship
and a conceptual discontinuity from understanding them as instruments of change and sources
of democracy. EU projects thus exemplify the complex relations to democracy and politics
typical for participatory governance: they may offer opportunities for more direct democracy,
but they may also mean participation under the conditions defined by the administration.
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