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Representation and Democracy in the EU

Representation and Democracy in the EU
Author: Richard Bellamy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317580761

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This book explores the various ways in which citizens are represented in EU policy-making. Most accounts naturally focus on the European Parliament as the prime source of democratic representation. This collection focuses instead on four other channels that are as and often more important: namely, representation via governments, national parliaments, civil society organisations and directly, via referenda. Based on original research, the book combines democratic theory with detailed empirical analysis to provide an innovative, timely and up-to-date evaluation of the nature of representation in the EU. Policy advisors, practitioners and those scholars interested in democracy and the European Union will find this volume to be a valuable resource. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.


Political Representation in the European Union

Political Representation in the European Union
Author: Sandra Kröger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317745493

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In recent years the financial and economic crisis of 2008–9 has progressed into an equally important political and democratic crisis of the EU. These troubled times have set the framework to re-assess a number of important questions in regard to representative democracy in the EU, such as the normative foundation of political representation, the institutional relationship between representatives and represented, the link between democracy and representation and new arenas and actors. This book examines the diverse avenues through which different sorts of actors have expressed their voices during the Euro crisis and how their various interests are translated into the decision-making process. It offers a state-of- the-art assessment of what political representation means in this context as well as a contribution to the ‘representative turn’ in democratic theory. The authors address three key themes: • The main actors and channels of political representation in the EU. • Interlocking levels of representation in the EU and the way in which national and supranational representation works. • How the European institutional system represents EU citizens through law and administration. Focusing on the importance of representation in the legitimation of democracy, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European Union politics, European studies, democratic theory, representation studies, civil society and transnational democracy.


The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union

The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union
Author: S. Kröger
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 023035582X

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What does political representation in the European Union look like? This volume argues that the transformation of representation in the EU is characterized by diversification processes, albeit with an uncertain ability to re-configure the link between representation and democracy.


Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union

Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union
Author: Hermann Schmitt
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 323
Release: 1999-06-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191522708

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How severe a problem is what many call the 'democratic deficit' of the European Union? Despite a voluminous theoretical literature dealing with this question, there is hardly any systematic empirical investigation of the effectiveness of the system of political representation in the EU and of the legitimacy beliefs of EU citizens that spring from it. This volume elaborates a conceptual framework for the empirical analysis of the alleged democratic deficit. Four dimensions of legitimacy beliefs are identified and analysed: the European political community, the scope of EU government, the institutions and processes of EU government, and EU policies. Based upon large-scale representative surveys among the mass publics, and different strata of the political elite of the EU and its member-states, the book examines the conditions of political representation in the EU. The results demonstrate, by and large, that legitimacy beliefs of EU citizens are the more positive, the less specific the object of identification and evaluations is; and that the process of political representation works pretty well as long as issues other than European Union issues are concerned. These findings are finally discussed in view of familiar strategies for institutional reform of the European Union.


Representation and Democracy in the Eu

Representation and Democracy in the Eu
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367739522

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This book explores the various ways in which citizens are represented in EU policy-making. Most accounts naturally focus on the European Parliament as the prime source of democratic representation. This collection focuses instead on four other channels that are as and often more important: namely, representation via governments, national parliaments, civil society organisations and directly, via referenda. Based on original research, the book combines democratic theory with detailed empirical analysis to provide an innovative, timely and up-to-date evaluation of the nature of representation in the EU. Policy advisors, practitioners and those scholars interested in democracy and the European Union will find this volume to be a valuable resource. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.


Political Representation in the European Union

Political Representation in the European Union
Author: Sandra Kröger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781315794761

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In recent years the financial and economic crisis of 2008-9 has progressed into an equally important political and democratic crisis of the EU. These troubled times have set the framework to re-assess a number of important questions in regard to representative democracy in the EU, such as the normative foundation of political representation, the institutional relationship between representatives and represented, the link between democracy and representation and new arenas and actors. This book examines the diverse avenues through which different sorts of actors have expressed their voices during the Euro crisis and how their various interests are translated into the decision-making process. It offers a state-of- the-art assessment of what political representation means in this context as well as a contribution to the 'representative turn' in democratic theory. The authors address three key themes: * The main actors and channels of political representation in the EU. * Interlocking levels of representation in the EU and the way in which national and supranational representation works. * How the European institutional system represents EU citizens through law and administration. Focusing on the importance of representation in the legitimation of democracy, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European Union politics, European studies, democratic theory, representation studies, civil society and transnational democracy.


The Crisis of Representation in Europe

The Crisis of Representation in Europe
Author: Jack Hayward
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136305394

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The 1994 European Elections focused public attention on the perception that representatives put integration above public interest. The contributors here critically assess the diagnosis of the ailment and the solutions that have been canvassed to remedy its causes and consequences.


Democratic Representation in Europe

Democratic Representation in Europe
Author: Maurizio Cotta
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2007-11-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199234205

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This book contributes to a better understanding of relations between social and political change, and the importance of institutional factors in shaping the political elites of European democracies. It helps to substantiate theoretical debates in the social and political sciences on issues such as historical institutionalism and path dependency.


The Representative Turn in EU Studies

The Representative Turn in EU Studies
Author: Sandra Kröger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134927452

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After the participative and deliberative turns in both democratic theory and EU studies, we are currently witnessing a ‘representative turn’ to which this volume contributes by addressing the relation between representation and democracy in the EU. Although in the Lisbon Treaty the EU conceives itself as a representative democracy, the meaning of this concept in a supranational polity is far from clear – either in theory or practice. Instead, the historically contingent link between representation and democracy is today severely challenged by various processes of diversification at all levels of political action (national, regional, supranational). These processes challenge our understanding of representative democracy as involving electoral democracy within clearly delineated nation-states, provoking a situation in which ‘new frontiers’ of representation develop. Consequently, it becomes increasingly difficult to provide normative standards as well as accurate assessments of democratic representation in the EU. This volume addresses these core challenges of representative democracy in the EU from normative, theoretical and methodological perspectives. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.


Democracy in the European Union

Democracy in the European Union
Author: Christopher Lord
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1998
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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There has been much talk of the democratic deficit in the European Union, but little understanding of the problems of constructing a transnational democracy. This book seeks to remedy these defects by looking at democratic authorization, and representation of Union power.