Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity Concepts, Actors and Controversies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiesner, Claudia (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XIV, 309 p.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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?.