Citizens' Participation at the Local Level in Europe and Neighbouring Countries ─ Contribution of the Association of Local Democracy Agencies

Editor Antonella Valmorbida presents a collection of the field experiences of the director and the staff of the Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA) in Europe. The editor has organized the main body of the text in twelve chapters devoted to the objectives of the book, the approach of the ALDA to citizen participation, citizen participation at the local level, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Antonella Valmorbida is the Director of the Association of Local Democratic Agencies and a lecturer at the University of Padua, Italy. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Antonella Valmorbida is the Director of ALDA since its establishment in 1999. She has been working for over twenty years promoting citizens’ participation and local democracy in the enlarged Europe. Mrs Valmorbida is involved in most the European networks dealing with multilateral governance and local democracy, and a constant partner of the European institutions and of the Council of Europe on the matter. She is lecturing at the University of Padua, Italy, on decentralised cooperation.