Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity
ISBN:
978-3-319-94414-2
Auflage:
1st ed. 2019
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.08.2018
Reihe:
Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
309
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The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic Europe differ considerably. The processes of inventing and building a democratic EU are marked by conceptual controversies in both public and academic debates. These are the resource for the present book, which focuses on the concepts, actors and controversies related to inventing the EU as a democratic polity. The chapters study exemplary long-term and detail cases related to inventing and institutionalizing the decisive elements of representative democracy in the EU—a parliament, citizens that vote for it in universal suffrage and governmental bodies that are linked to parliament in much the same way as government is in a parliamentary democracy.
Schlagwörter
European Parliament
concept
EU citizenship
European unification
Court of Justice of the EU
triad of representative democracy
parliament-representation-legislature
citizens-subjects-people-sovereign-electorate-demos
government-executive
plural set
reality changes
political controversy
analytical and theoretical categories
indicators of social
institutional and political changes
EU as a democratic polity
intergovernmental model of sovereign nation states
interinstitutional micro-politics
conceptual controversies
invented
Biografische Anmerkung
Claudia Wiesner is Professor for Political science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and adjunct Professor in Political Science at JyväskyläUniversity, Finland. Her main research interests lie in the comparative study of democracy, political culture and political sociology in the EU multilevel system. Wiesner´s second field of research is Public Policy, its evaluation, reform and theory.
