Democracy in the European Union : integration through deliberation?

Democracy in the European Union : integration through deliberation? / edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum.

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...

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Other Authors: Eriksen, Erik Oddvar, 1955-, Fossum, John Erik
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:
European Union.
Democracy.
democracy.
LAW > International.
Democracy
Union européenne.
Démocratie.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Post-national integration; Beyond the nation-state? On some consequences of economic globalization; Deliberative supranationalism in the EU; The uses of democracy: reflections on the European democratic deficit; Subsidiarity and democratic deliberation; Constitution-making in the European Union; The anonymous hand of public reason: interparliamentary discourse and the quest for legitimacy; Challenging the bureaucratic challenge; Demanding public deliberation: the Council of Ministers; some lessons from the Anglo-American history.
  • Can the European Union become a sphere of publics?Indigenous rights and the limitations of the nation-state; Conclusion: legitimation through deliberation; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.

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