Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union and Global Governance Building a European Demos /
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| Summary: | XXVIII, 376 p. 8 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41381-5 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Beatriz Pérez de las Heras
- PART I. Institutional mechanisms for citizen involvement and innovative instruments of participatory democracy: an attempt to promote an active citizenship and improve the legislative legitimacy of the EU
- Chapter 1. Institutional instruments for citizen involvement and participation: their impact on the EU’s political processes and institutional legitimacy; Markus Thiel and Oana Petrescu
- Chapter 2. The European citizens’ initiative as democratic legitimacy enhancing tool: towards a broader conceptualization; Karolina Boronska-Hryniewiecka and Elizabeth Monaghan
- Chapter 3. From legislative controllers to policy proponents: the evolving role of national parliaments in the EU multi-level governance; Karolina Boronska-Hryniewiecka
- Chapter 4. European civil society and 'participatory' governance tools: the impact of the EU fundamental rights agency & platform; Markus Thiel
- PART II. Legal formalization of fundamental rights in the EU: towards a more inclusive and politically responsible Europe?
- Chapter 5. The charter of fundamental rights as a new element of European identity and beyond; Beatriz Pérez de las Heras
- Chapter 6. The accession to the European convention on human rights: the EU integration in a legal and judicial system reserved to states; Oana Petrescu
- Chapter 7. Democratic legitimacy and the court of justice of the European union; Peter Gjørtler
- PART III. Supranational options to reinforce the political legitimacy of the EU; Chapter 8. The role of culture in the construction of European identity; Mª Luz Suárez
- Chapter 9. New European economic governance versus European economic government: from market constitutionalism towards a more redistributive constitutionalism; Ainhoa Lasa
- Chapter 10. The transcendental construction of the social dimension of the European union: the challenges of the EU social model through and post crisis; Ainhoa Lasa and Jone Itxaro Elizondo
- Chapter 11. Constructing the European demos through external action? The case of consular assistance to EU citizens; Steffen Bay Rasmussen
- PART IV. Extending the European democratic model to other global and international actors: the EU as an embryo of cosmopolitan polity?
- Chapter 12. European neighbourhood policy: new models of external governance; Aurelia Dercaci
- Chapter 13. The EU as an international actor of peace and security; Antonio Manrique de Luna Barrios
- Chapter 14. The European asylum law, as a model for a more cosmopolitan international asylum law?; Pablo Antonio Fernández
- Chapter 15. Democratizing international trade and investment agreements in the EU; Katerina Yiannibas
- Conclusions.