Participatory and Digital Democracy at the Local Level

1. Introduction. - 2. Actors and Discourses: typology of discourses according to the actors and contexts. - 3. Evolution of the legal framework in Europe for the use of digital participation at the local level : the French case. - 4. European Free Mobility and Italian Participatory Democracy. Knowledge and digital technology as a bridge. - 5. Youth and Democracy: Digital Opportunities for the Future of Participation? - 6. Silenced Voices and Freedom of Speech in the Digital Epoch: a Critical Perspective on the Post-Totalitarian Media Culture. - 7. The relationship between participatory democracy and digitalisation. Is there an East-West division in Europe? - 8. Differences and similarities in local gouvernance in Slovakia and Lithuania. - 9. Online citizen consultations since 2018: Europanova's experience. - 10. (Dis) Empowering Citizens at the Local Level in Bulgaria. Digitalization, Local Democracy and Participatory Practices before and post-COVID-2019. - 11. The conditions of social learning in formal deliberative settings: a study of municipal councils in Brussels.