Context clues for the stall of the Citizens' Initiative: Lessons for opening up e-participation development practice

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 454-465

  Susha, Iryna ^a   Grönlund, Åke ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

E democracy; E participation; E petition; EU policy making; European Citizens' Initiative (ECI); Genre theory; Policy analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906272549     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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