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This paper focuses on the role played by civil-society organisations in three policy sectors – environmentalism, regionalism and anti-racism – at different territorial levels. The paper describes routes of Europeanisation, and highlights the crucial role of mediators between national and European levels of governance in building alliances and transnational networks.
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Ruzza, C., Bozzini, E. Organised Civil Society and European Governance: Routes of Contestation. Eur Polit Sci 7, 296–303 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2008.25
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