Democratic Improvements in the European Union under the Lisbon Treaty: Institutional Changes Regarding Democratic Government in the EU

Mayoral, Juan Antonio Monterrey

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“…Participation in a democratic system is a fundamental and universal right that has been recognized in the Lisbon Treaty. This further suggests that every voter will have equal rights to take part in the representative system (Mayoral, 2011 It is against this background that participation of youth in offline political activities has been measured as an important component for a vibrant and strong democracy (Bakker & Vreese, 2011). Therefore, youth political participation is fundamental to democracy and without it; upcoming generation of youth may perambulate into a political process without the requisite knowledge, skills and determination to challenge selfish political elites.…”

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Youth Offline Political Participation: Trends and Role of Social Media

Mohamad¹,

Dauda²,

Halim³

2018

JKMJC

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Recently, the growing body of research has waded into the decline of formal political participation and engagement among youth especially voting and party allegiance due to the heightened youth activism such as protests and demonstrations. However, past research proposes that there is a significant relationship between the usage of social media and online political participation among youth. Many of those studies have inordinately relied on college students as samples rather than the entire population of youth with a vast amount of knowledge and experience in. Yet, only few researches have tried to uncover the tendencies of youth participation in formal political activities such as voting and party allegiance via the unprecedented social networking sites such as Facebook to address this issue, the study has employed multiple regression analysis to examine the correlation between use of Facebook, interactivity with politicians, Facebook information quality, political interest and offline political participation among Nigerian youth. This study has shown that Facebook use, interactivity with political figures, Facebook information quality and political interest significantly correlates with offline political participation. Social media allows marginalized youth to interact with friends and political figures, fostering their engagement in political issues, as well as enabling them to share and express their opinions thus draw youth participation in political activities such as voting. Incisively, Facebook serves as a gateway where youth can acquire political knowledge and information. It has become apparent that social media helps to lower the barriers and widen the scope of informal political activities.

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Section: Review Of Literature and Hypotheses Development Offline Political Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth Offline Political Participation: Trends and Role of Social Media

Mohamad¹,

Dauda²,

Halim³

2018

JKMJC

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“…It acquired control over the European Commission's implementation duties (a terrain where plenty of political decisions are also taken), as well as the capacity to request the European Commission to submit a proposal to launch a new piece of legislation, according to the distribution of competences established in the Treaties. The Treaty of Lisbon also gave the Parliament greater capacity to scrutinise the European Council and the Council of the EU on the Union's external actions, and to propose amendments to the Treaties, among other enhancements (Corbett, Jacobs and Neville, 2016;Mayoral, 2011).…”

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'Business as usual': The Treaty of Lisbon and transnational party manifestos

Ares¹,

Volkens²

2021

Política Soc.

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The Treaty of Lisbon was a milestone in the enduring process of empowerment of the European Parliament and its connections to the European Commission. This latest reform of the Treaties, in force since December 2009, placed the only supranational institution whose members are directly elected by all citizens of the EU (since 1979) on an equal footing with the Council as a co-legislator in around thirty additional policy areas. The Treaty of Lisbon also strengthened the European Parliament in terms of the annual and multiannual budgetary decisions, and it granted it the right to elect the President of the European Commission according to the results of the European elections. This article examines various possible effects of this major boost of the European Parliament, along with links to the European Commission in the manifestos issued by five European parties: the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), European Free Alliance (EFA), European Green Party (European Greens or EGP), European People’s Party (EPP), and Party of European Socialists (PES). It studies variations from 2004 onwards in the scope of the programmatic proposals regarding EU domains of power, the footprint in the manifestos of the transnational party organisations themselves, and eventually also of their candidates for the presidency of the European Commission. To do so, the twenty manifestos issued by the abovementioned parties for the 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019 European elections were content analysed. The results point to the lasting distance between these transnational parties and the European elections, despite the reinforcement of the role of the European Parliament over time.

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“…However, political participation as it is today, evolves and develops in both gradual and pragmatic manner; over time, space and environment uniqueness; and evolution of states (Gromping, 2014;Suhana & Ali, 2012). This standpoint has resulted in political participation shapes, guides, and influences the making and re-making of public policies and implementation, as well as the efficacy of public leadership in order to achieve accountable and transparent leadership, particularly in settings where citizens have the equal rights to political participation (Education, Audio-Visual and Culture Executive Agency [EACEA], 2013;Mayoral, 2011). This makes participation very essential to the politics, democracy and good governance (Bakker & Vreese, 2011).…”

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An Overview of Push/Pull Factors of Political Participation in Nigeria

Othman

Osman

Mohammed

2018

JIS

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This article overviews the push/pull factors of citizens' participation in Nigerian politics. Citizens' participation in state politics is both integral and an indispensable part of every political system and development. However, it is determined by numerous factors which are universal, but relative in terms of contexts. Such a participation is affected by many factors in Nigeria. The study uses secondary sources to collect data and perform qualitative analysis. The study is timely and significant in view of the critical roles where participation plays in shaping and influencing Nigerian politics, especially at the current moment when it is being characterized by apathy and participation on two ends. It is concentrated on an atmosphere of push and pull forces, negative and positive issues and developments, this environment is manipulated by elites/politicians. This needs a change for the better, to inculcate hope, overcome despair, anxiety as well as increased ethno-religious and electoral tensions.

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Democratic Improvements in the European Union under the Lisbon Treaty: Institutional Changes Regarding Democratic Government in the EU

Cited by 9 publications

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Youth Offline Political Participation: Trends and Role of Social Media

Youth Offline Political Participation: Trends and Role of Social Media

'Business as usual': The Treaty of Lisbon and transnational party manifestos

An Overview of Push/Pull Factors of Political Participation in Nigeria

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