Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity Concepts, Actors and Controversies /
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| Summary: | XIV, 309 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94415-9 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Inventing the EU as a democratic polity
- 1. Conceptualising representative democracy in the EU
- 2. Towards a reflexive perspective on political concepts
- 3. Studying Conceptual Change via European integration: A Research Agenda
- 4. Studying conceptual controversies in this book
- 5. Inventing the EU—but as a democratic polity or as a balance of powers?
- 6. Towards the bases of representative democracy—parliament, citizenry, and government
- 7. Who did it, when, and how? Treaty changes, law implementation, and interinstitutonal micropolitics
- 8. A dynamic perspective on the EP´s power gains: studying interinstitutional micropolitics
- 9. Inventing and shaping EU citizens
- 10. A defective supranational democracy? Government, Parliament, Head of State in the EU system
- 11. Parliamentarism and the European Parliament: potentials and limits
- 12. European Council – Government, Parliament, President or intergovernmental assembly?
- 13. Citizenship, Democracy and demos-building in the EU
- 14. Capitalism, Democracy and the European Union
- 15. Citizenship, Social rights and democracy
- 16. Parliaments versus Executives in the financial crisis
- Conclusion: The EU as a democratic polity?.