Overview
- Offers a different view of the EU as a polity to discuss its so-called deficit of democratic legitimacy
- Concentrates on the range of controversies related to democracy, representation and parliament in the EU system
- Focuses on the concepts defining European Integration as socially constructed and indicators of the reality they describe
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic Europe differ considerably. The processes of inventing and building a democratic EU are marked by conceptual controversies in both public and academic debates. These are the resource for the present book, which focuses on the concepts, actors and controversies related to inventing the EU as a democratic polity. The chapters study exemplary long-term and detail cases related to inventing and institutionalizing the decisive elements of representative democracy in the EU—a parliament, citizens that vote for it in universal suffrage and governmental bodies that are linked to parliament in much the same way as government is in a parliamentary democracy.
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Keywords
- invented
- conceptual controversies
- triad of representative democracy
- parliament-representation-legislature
- citizens-subjects-people-sovereign-electorate-demos
- government-executive
- concept
- plural set
- reality changes
- political controversy
- struggle
- analytical and theoretical categories
- indicators of social, institutional and political changes
- EU as a democratic polity
- European unification
- intergovernmental model of sovereign nation states
- interinstitutional micro-politics
- EU citizenship
- Court of Justice of the EU
- European Parliament
- european union politics
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Theoretical and Methodological Toolkit
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Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity
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The EU as a Supranational Democratic Polity?
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The Inner Market, Multi-level Governance and Democracy
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Claudia Wiesner is Professor for Political science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and adjunct Professor in Political Science at Jyväskylä
University, Finland. Her main research interests lie in the comparative study of democracy, political culture and political sociology in the EU multilevel system. Wiesner´s second field of research is Public Policy, its evaluation, reform and theory.
University, Finland. Her main research interests lie in the comparative study of democracy, political culture and political sociology in the EU multilevel system. Wiesner´s second field of research is Public Policy, its evaluation, reform and theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Actors and Controversies
Authors: Claudia Wiesner
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94415-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94414-2Published: 16 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06848-6Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94415-9Published: 02 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 309
Topics: European Union Politics, Democracy, Governance and Government, Citizenship, International Organization