Tag: Sergiu Gherghina
The best of Democratic Audit’s 2015 coverage of the European Union
As always, this year has been an eventful one on the continent, with the Brexit referendum on the horizon and political clashes over the terms of the UK’s membership, as well as a migrant crisis and the Greek crisis. Here, we round up 10 of the best articles on Democratic Audit which focus on the European […]
Poor visibility and design flaws are hampering the participatory potential of the European Citizens’ Initiative
The European Citizens’ Initiative was introduced with the Treaty of Lisbon with the aim to improve and expand participation in European Union policy-making. Sergiu Gherghina and Adriana Groh argue that its potential is being hampered by poor citizen knowledge of the initiative, and multiple design flaws. Introduced in April 2012 as the world’s first element of transnational participatory […]
The Polish and Romanian experiences show that party elites need to loosen control when introducing primary elections to select candidates
The Conservatives experimented with primaries at the 2010 general election, and Ed Miliband has recently proposed their wider introduction to choose Labour Party candidates. Sergiu Gherghina and Michal Radecki believe primary elections can bring significant benefits for parties and democracy as a whole, but warn that the UK needs to avoid mistakes made in Poland and Romania […]
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