Mainstream research on the roles and contribution of civil society in the EU is characterised by a strong focus on European civil society in Brussels. Studies looking at activities and roles of national CSOs in the European Union (EU) depart from mainstream analytical and conceptual perspectives and rarely talk to each other. The contributions of this special issue attempt to bridge empirical and analytical gaps between existing studies on European civil society beyond Brussels. They show that the involvement of national CSOs in EU policymaking and democratisation is broader and more diverse than is usually thought. They approach the object of study from an original analytical perspective: a research agenda inspired by sociological approaches. This agenda hinges on an interactionist and pragmatic analytical framework, a pluralist approach to causality and takes into account the peculiarities and effects of context. Moving beyond Brussels and adopting diverse analytical perspectives, the contributions provide new evidence on the diversity of functions, roles and responses of national CSOs to the EU, and the roles and motivations of national CSOs implementing EU policies.

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社论：超越布鲁塞尔泡沫？欧盟国家民间社会组织

关于欧盟公民社会的作用和贡献的主流研究的特点是非常关注布鲁塞尔的欧洲公民社会。研究欧盟 (EU) 国家公民社会组织的活动和作用的研究偏离了主流的分析和概念观点，很少相互交谈。本期特刊的贡献试图弥合关于布鲁塞尔以外欧洲公民社会的现有研究之间的实证和分析差距。它们表明，国家公民社会组织在欧盟政策制定和民主化中的参与比通常认为的更广泛、更多样化。他们从原始的分析角度接近研究对象：受社会学方法启发的研究议程。该议程取决于互动主义和务实的分析框架，因果关系的多元方法，并考虑到上下文的特性和影响。超越布鲁塞尔并采用不同的分析视角，这些贡献为国家公民社会组织对欧盟的职能、作用和反应的多样性，以及国家公民社会组织实施欧盟政策的作用和动机的多样性提供了新的证据。