Katrin Böttger (IEP Berlin) and Annette Knaut (University of Koblenz-Landau) organized a panel dealing with „The European Citizens Initiative (ECI): Strengthening European Democracy?“ at the ECPR General Conference in Bordeaux from 4th to 7th September 2013. The panel took place in the section „Organised for Influence: Organised Interests in National, European and International Arenas“ and discussed methodological and theoretical challenges of the ECI as a new instrument of participative democracy on EU level as a type of agenda initiative. Info here.