Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union and Global Governance Building a European Demos /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pérez de las Heras, Beatriz (Editor)
Summary:XXVIII, 376 p. 8 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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.