Chapter 1 Emergent Patterns of Civil Society Participation in Global and European Governance

Chapter 2 The Evolution of CSOs’ Legal Status in International Governance and Its Relevance for the Legitimacy of International Organizations

Chapter 3 Civil Society Participation under Most Favourable Conditions: Assessing the Deliberative Quality of the WSIS

Chapter 4 The ILO, Tripartism, and NGOs: Do Too Many Cooks Really Spoil the Broth?

Chapter 6 Civil Society Participation in International Security Organizations: The Cases of NATO and the OSCE

Chapter 7 Democratic Aspiration Meets Political Reality: Participation of Organized Civil Society in Selected European Policy Processes

Chapter 8 Participatory Strategies in the Regulation of GMO Products in the EU

Chapter 9 Assessing the Legitimacy of European Regional Policy: The Interplay of Civil Society and State Actors in Sweden and Germany

Chapter 10 CSOs and the Democratization of International Governance: Prospects and Problems