Acknowledgements
The papers included here were originally presented at a CINEFOGO Network of Excellence workshop, New Forms of Citizenship and Governance in Europe, in Prague in September 2006. We would like to acknowledge the financial support of the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme. Not all the papers presented there fitted with the current framework, and we had to turn away some interesting contributions as well as inviting some additional contributions to fill important gaps. We are grateful to the CSES in Prague as well as the European Commission for their help with staging this event and putting this special issue together. We would also like to thank Matt McGovern and Kathryn Vincent for their help in editing the special issue.