[PDF] Democracy And The European Union eBook

Author : Svein S Andersen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 1996-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761951131

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Taking as its starting point the major issues of democracy which are the ongoing concerns of every liberal Western political system, this volume offers a wide-ranging review of democracy in the European Union. It treats the EU as a new type of political system within the tradition of parliamentary democracies, a system which is neither federal nor intergovernmental, and which consequently has unique problems of how to handle democratic requirements. Part One deals with the two major challenges of interest articulation in the EU, political parties and lobbying. The second part discusses how democracy becomes the key element in the linkage between the EU and its member states, focusing on France, Italy and Belgium where the r

Author : Vivien A. Schmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199266972

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This eagerly awaited volume, from a leading scholar on Europeanization, explores the impact of European integration on national democracies. Focusing on the case studies of France, Britain, Italy, and Germany, this is an exciting contribution to work on the implications of European integration for democratic government.

Author : Steven Blockmans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786609991

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The European Union is grappling with a democracy problem. The succession of crises which have plagued the increasingly executive EU for years, has led to a rising cacophony of voices calling for fundamental change to the integration project. Yet despite the seismic shock of the Brexit referendum and the electoral upsets by nativist parties across the continent, few of the plans for EU reform include concrete proposals to reduce the age-old democratic deficit. This book is concerned with the two-pronged question of how the relationship between citizens, the state and EU institutions has changed, and how direct democratic participation can be improved in a multi-layered Union. As such, this edited volume focuses not on populism per se, nor does it deeply engage with policy and output legitimacy. Rather, the research is concerned with process and polity. Building on the notion of increasing social, economic and political interdependence across borders, this volume asks how a sense of solidarity and European identity can be rescued from the bottom up by politically empowering citizens to ‘take back control’ of their EU.

Author : Karolina Karr
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3593384124

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Can interest groups and lobbyists arguably undemocratic institutions operate in democratic systems without hindering the people s interests? Karolina Karr s "Democracy and Lobbying in the European Union" explores the role and potential impact of interest groups on democracy, both in theory and practice, in the context of a changing continent. This timely volume explores how the power of interest groups has developed due to the growing distance between elected representatives and the European people and forecasts what this development might mean for the vitality of government."

Author : Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113458993X

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The European Union is widely held to suffer from a democratic deficit, and this raises a wider question: can democracy at all be applied to decision-making bodies beyond the nation state? Today, the EU is a highly complex entity undergoing profound changes. This book asks how the type of cooperation that the EU is based on can be explained; what are the integrative forces in the EU and how can integration at a supra-national level come about? The key thinkers represented in this volume stress that in order to understand integration beyond the nation state, we need new explanatory categories associated with deliberation because a supranational entity as the EU posesses far weaker and less well-developed means of coercion - bargaining resources - than do states. The most appropriate term to denote this is the notion of 'deliberative supranationalism'. This pioneering work, headed by major writers such as Habermas, Schlesinger and Bellamy, brings a new perspective to this key issue in contemporary politics and political theory.

Author : Francesca Bignami
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108485081

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A state-of-the-art analysis of the contentious areas of EU law that have been put in the spotlight by populism.

Author : Richard Youngs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0801897327

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Richard Youngs is the director of Fride, Madrid, and an associate professor at the University of Warwick. He has authored five books, including Europe㠒ole in Global Politics: A Retreat from Liberal Internationalism --Book Jacket.

Author : Christopher Lord
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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There has been much talk of the democratic deficit in the European Union, but little understanding of the problems of constructing a transnational democracy. This book seeks to remedy these defects by looking at democratic authorization, and representation of Union power.

Author : David Levi-Faur
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 178811356X

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This book looks at democratic empowerment via institutional designs that extend the political rights of European citizens. It focuses on three themes: first, the positive and negative effects of the European Union institutional design on the political rights of its citizens; second, challenges for democratic regimes across the world in the 21st century in the context of regionalism and globalization; third, the constraints of neoliberalism and capitalist markets on the ability of citizens to effectively achieve their political rights within the Union.