Democracy in the European Union

Dimitris N. Chryssochoou (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2000 | New edition
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-86064-598-3 (ISBN)

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Deals with the relationship between democracy and European integration. Offers an account of alternative approaches to the origins, nature and development of the democratic deficit of the European Union. The author poses the question of whether the emerging European polity can transform itself from democracies to democracy.

This text aims to capture the dominant character of the relationship between democracy and European integration, offering an account of alternative approaches to the origins, nature and development of the "democratic deficit" of the European Union. Its central thesis is that such a "deficit" stems as much from the inadequacy of existing institutional arrangements to meet the requirements of democratic shared-rule, as it does from the absence of a transnational demos, capable of directing its democratic claims to, and via, the central institutions. The author maintains that the more the Union approximates to a politically organized "union of peoples," the greater the possibilities of developing democracy within its structures.

Dimitris Chryssochoou is Lecturer in Pan-European Politics at the University of Exeter.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.5.2000
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
ISBN-10	1-86064-598-4 / 1860645984
ISBN-13	978-1-86064-598-3 / 9781860645983
Zustand	Neuware