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Seeking thematizations on the European democratic experiment that take into account the existence of organized citizens participating in the formation, implementation and evaluation of public policies, we can find three that are worth examining. The first is the one that considers the EU as a multi-level and polycentric governance system; instead the second considers it as a “regional State”; and the third as a “cosmopolitan empire”.
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It is also worth mentioning the significant preparatory materials supporting the White Paper (European Commission 2002b).
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We may find information on the participation of citizens’ organizations in the Open Method of Coordination in social inclusion in Fazi, Smith (2006, pp. 58 ff).
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The Treaty establishing the European Community provides that the Commission should be assisted by committees composed of representatives of Member States and chaired by the Commission the function of which is to establish dialogue with national administrations before adopting implementing measures (see http://europa.eu/scadplus/glossary/comitology_en.htm Accessed: 3 December 2009). By extension, this term refers to all activities of policy-formation and establishment of regulations that take place in committees and working groups, where representatives others than the national institutions also participate. All this is denominated as “comitology”.
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It must be highlighted that the concept of Europeanization used by Beck and Grande does not coincide with the one political scientists usually refer to, which can be defined as the process of adapting national democracies to the evolving European public sphere, in opposition to the process of "European integration" (Schmidt 2006, p. 1; see also Scharpf 1999).
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Moro, G. (2012). Beyond the Nation-State Model. In: Citizens in Europe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1942-6_2
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