Introduction: democracy, professionalization and participation / Jan W. van Deth and William A. Maloney
How to domesticate civil society by public-private partnerships / Matthias Freise
Entrepreneurial participation in international local politics / Nicolas Maisetti
New issues, new forms of action? / Christopher Rootes
The professionalization of EU's civil society / Sabine Saurugger
The democratic contribution of professionalized representation / William A. Maloney
Professionalized supply-side mobilization: are financial contributors meaningful participants? / Grant Jordan
New modes of participation and norms of citizenship / Jan W. van Deth
A remedy for unequal participation? how welfare states impact on social and political engagement / Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen
Peripheral participants. the activation of the politically less engaged in advanced democracies / Eline A. de Rooij
Surrogates for the underrepresented? ideology and participatory inequality in personal and professional political action / Tom W.G. van der Meer
The stability of individualized collective action / Ellen Quintelier and Marc Hooghe
Youth participation from the top-down / Ariadne Vromen
Conclusions: how democratic is professionalized and individualized political action? / Jan W. van Deth and William A. Maloney.