Abstract
As the dichotomy underpinning most of the current literature suggests, when private actors develop activities in order to influence the production of norms, they can be seen as transgressing borders between the private and the public sphere. Our workshop will focus on the management, the implications, and the meanings of such transgressions, both analytical and normative: (1) since norm-production and oversight have been key elements of the classical distinction between the public and private spheres at least from the formation of modern state, the very foundations of such distinction may be questioned with private actors' increasing involvement in public decision-making. (2) the analytical distinction, however, cannot entirely be separated from a normative one, the private actors' involvement sometimes leading to a transgression of norms of democratic decision-making founded on publicity, legitimacy, equality and accountability.