Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union and Global Governance: Building a European Demos

✍ Scribed by Beatriz Pérez de las Heras (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 390
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of citizens’ support. It identifies missing elements of popular legitimacy and makes proposals for their formal inclusion in a future Treaty reform, while assessing the contribution that the EU may make to global governance by expanding a credible democratic model to other international actors. The contributors offer perspectives from law, political science, and sociology, and the 15 case studies of different aspects of the incipient European demos provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of these pertinent questions. The edited volume provides a truly interdisciplinary study of the citizens’ role in the European political landscape that can serve as a basis for further analyses of the EU’s democratic legitimacy. It will be of use to legal scholars and political scientists interested in the EU’s democratic system, institutional setup and external relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-7
Institutional Instruments for Citizen Involvement and Participation: Their Impact on the EU’s Political Processes and Institutional Legitimacy....Pages 9-39
The European Citizens’ Initiative as Democratic Legitimacy-Enhancing Tool: Toward a Broader Conceptualization....Pages 41-63
From Legislative Controllers to Policy Proponents: The Evolving Role of National Parliaments in EU Multi-Level Governance....Pages 65-86
European Civil Society and ‘Participatory’ Governance Tools: The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and Platform....Pages 87-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-115
The Charter of Fundamental Rights as a New Element of European Identity and Beyond....Pages 117-139
Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights: EU Integration into a Legal and Judicial System Reserved to States....Pages 141-156
Democratic Legitimacy and the Court of Justice of the European Union....Pages 157-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-193
The Role of Culture in the Construction of European Identity....Pages 195-219
New European Economic Governance versus European Economic Government: From Market Constitutionalism toward a More Redistributive Constitutionalism....Pages 221-237
The Transcendental Construction of the Social Dimension of the European Union: The Challenges of the EU Social Model During and After the Crisis....Pages 239-258
Constructing the European Demos through External Action? The Case of Consular Assistance to EU Citizens....Pages 259-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-286
European Neighbourhood Policy: New Models of External Governance....Pages 287-303
The European Union as an International Actor of Peace and Security....Pages 305-319
European Asylum Law: A Model for a More Cosmopolitan International Asylum Law?....Pages 321-342
Democratizing International Trade and Investment Agreements in the European Union....Pages 343-360
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
Conclusions....Pages 363-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-376

✦ Subjects

European Union Politics;Democracy;International Organization