Bringing together leading and emerging scholars on European politics, this collection explores how dilemmas associated with key democratic concepts can be understood in relation to the EU. The book renews our understanding of EU democracy in ways that are more attentive to the multiple fault lines and cleavages that structure this political order. It focuses on a set of democratic dilemmas inherent to EU democracy, including representation, deliberation, sovereignty, citizenship, democratic contestation and market, to provide discussions on the specific tensions and trade-offs associated to a particular concept. The book engages in the theoretical groundwork necessary for assessing and analysing the specific dilemmas that arise when translating democratic concepts into concrete institutional designs in the European setting.
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Reassesses the democratic quality of European integration
Notes on Contributors
1. Democratic Dilemmas of Europe’s Political Order
Niklas Bremberg (Stockholm University) and Ludvig Norman (Stockholm University)
2. Representation without a Demos? A very European Democratic Dilemma
Christopher Lord (ARENA Centre for European Studies)
3. Beyond the Nation-state: Multilevel Democracy in Europe
Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen)
4. Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy in the European Union: why (not) and how (not)?
Firat Cengiz (University of Liverpool)
5. Dilemmas of EU Citizenship: the persistent Divide between Economic and Political integration
Sandra Seubert (Goethe Universität)
6. European Capitalism without European Democracy? Democratic Dilemmas and Markets in the European Union
Kathleen R. McNamara (Georgetown University)
7. Beyond Democratic Minimalism: how Democratic Contestation can Support European Integration
Joseph Lacey (University College Dublin)
8. Europe’s Democratic Dilemmas in Historical Perspective
Sheri Berman (Columbia University)
9. The European Union’s Main Democratic Deficits in Comparative Perspective
R. Daniel Kelemen (Rutgers University)
10. Conclusion: the Dilemmatic Perspective on European Democracy
Niklas Bremberg (Stockholm University) and Ludvig Norman (Stockholm University)
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Advances the understanding of what twenty-first century democracy in Europe is and what it can be
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781399511940
Publisert
2025-05-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232