β Scribed by John Fossum
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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.
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Post-national integration......Page 16
Beyond the nation-state? On some consequences of economic globalization......Page 44
Deliberative supranationalism in the EU......Page 57
The uses of democracy: reflections on the European democratic deficit......Page 80
Subsidiarity and democratic deliberation......Page 100
Constitution-making in the European Union......Page 126
The anonymous hand of public reason: interparliamentary discourse and the quest for legitimacy......Page 156
Challenging the bureaucratic challenge......Page 179
Demanding public deliberation: the Council of Ministers; some lessons from the Anglo-American history......Page 204
Can the European Union become a sphere of publics?......Page 221
Indigenous rights and the limitations of the nation-state......Page 245
Conclusion: legitimation through deliberation......Page 271
Bibliography......Page 285
Name index......Page 313
Subject index......Page 316
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Analyzing the effects of the European Union on national decision-making and the chain of delegation and accountability, the authors look at Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway. The analyses are based on principal-agent perspective.
<h4>Reassesses the democratic quality of European integration</h4> <ul><li>Advances the understanding of what twenty-first century democracy in Europe is and what it can be</li><li>Presents new perspectives on under-explored dilemmas related to specific aspects of democracy in the context of Europea
<span>This book assesses European Union policies aimed at encouraging democratization in East Asia and the Mediterranean, addressing theoretical debates over the international dimensions of political change and the EU's characteristics as an international actor. The factors driving and inhibiting Eu
<p><span>This is an open access book. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. However, the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasing
<P>Since 2008, the European Union has been affected by one of the most severe crises in the history of Europe. This book builds on the work of JΓΌrgen Habermas to answer the key question: is Europe strong enough to overcome the recent crisis? Arguing that recovery can only take place if the citizens
Comparing the structures and challenges of democratic constitutionalism in India and the European Union, this book explores how democracy is possible within vastly diverse societies of continental scale, and why a constitutional framework is best able to secure the ideals of collective autonomy and