In order to analyse why executive actors (do not) offer democratic innovations in foreign and security policy (FSP), we apply a small-n and cross-national comparative method. We empirically map and theoretically conceptualise executive-citizens relations in FSP by comparing the following cases:
France
Germany
Poland
United Kingdom
All four countries are “heavyweights” in European politics and security, and thus particularly relevant for how executive-citizens relations are organised in the field of FSP. At the same time, they differ significantly in how they organise executive-citizens interactions in the form of various democratic innovations.
Citizens in Foreign Policy 