Author : Michael Newman
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This text examines key questions in democracy, drawing on traditional concepts of political thought and empirical evidence to clarify the current situation. It offers critical insights into the EU and some of the arguments frequently used in its defence
Author : Michael Newman
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1996-01
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9781850652564
The Maastricht Treaty reactivated a debate about the future of the European Union: does it still make sense to talk of a sovereign state, or is power now moving upwards in the direction of a political union and downwards to a regional level? What are the implications of such trends for democracy?
Author : Richard Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107022282
Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers 'demoicracy' as the cure.
Author : Stefan Auer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2022
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Bart M.J. Szewczyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000293084
This book shows how the EU’s dual sovereignty–legitimacy problem can be resolved through the political concept of European citizenship, which can serve both to define the scope of European sovereignty and to justify EU power beyond national democracy. It reconceptualizes the EU’s legitimacy problem and demonstrates how sources of legitimacy can be identified and give rise to European sovereignty. It argues that sovereignty should be based on the will of citizens acting through various political bodies within the EU—city halls, regional entities, national governments, and EU institutions—and develops a general theory, arguably applicable to any political order. The EU is an unprecedented political project that is in tension with traditional forms of state legitimation based on national democracy, as nationalists and populists throughout Europe often make clear. Against this backdrop, the book fully articulates the notion of European sovereignty and argues that the EU’s sources of legitimacy are based on European citizenship and national democracy. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics, European integration, international institutions, and international relations.
Author : Council Of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287171351
What role do the people play in defining and developing human rights?This volume explores the very topical issue of the lack of democratic legitimisation of national and international courts and the question of whether rendering the original process of defining human rights more democratic at the national and international level would improve the degree of protection they afford.The authors venture to raise the crucial question: When can a democratic society be considered to be mature enough so as to be trusted to provide its own definition of human rights obligations?
Author : Neil MacCormick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199253302
This is a controversial work of applied legal theory, addressing urgent contemporary questions about law and the State, about the character of the UK as a state, and about the judicial character of the European Union in its relationship with the member states of the Union. It is also a contribution to political theory in its discussion of the rule of law, the theory of sovereignty, and the principles of liberal nationalism. It combines a statement and application of the `institutional theory of law' with a balanced and carefully argued version of contemporary Scottish nationalism.
Author : Andreas Follesdal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3662036223
The European Union is a new subject for theories of legitimacy, posing fundamental questions to the established concepts and principles of democratic theory. General compliance and popular acceptance and respect for European law is at stake. The volume addresses the main challenges of the European Union to democratic theory. The legitimacy of such transnational institutions born by political integration has so far received some but scant attention. The mere existence of the Union proves that the sovereign state cannot remain the sole focus of normative reflection. Indeed, the very conception of sovereignty is at stake. The present volume combines political science and normative political theory to offer concepts, arguments and criteria that further these debates, addressing problems of principle.
Author : Stefan Auer
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1787388670
The European Union means many different things to its many peoples. In Germany, for example, the European project was conceived mainly as post-national, or even post-sovereign. In France, by contrast, President Emmanuel Macron has pursued the vision of a sovereign Europe; that is, an EU that would become a formidable geopolitical actor. Yet, instead, Europe has struggled to ascertain its values abroad and even domestically, facing a sovereignist rebellion from its newer member states, such as Hungary and Poland, and the departure of Britain. The eurozone crisis has undermined the EU’s economic credentials, the refugee crisis its societal cohesion, the failure to stand up to Russia its sense of purpose, and the Covid-19 pandemic its credibility as a protector of European citizens. The key argument of this book is that the multiple crises of the European project are caused by one underlying factor: its bold attempt to overcome the age of nation-states. Left unchecked, supranational institutions tend to become ever more bureaucratic, eluding control of the people they are meant to serve. The logic of technocracy is thus pitted against the democratic impulse, which the European Union is supposed to embody. Democracy in Europe has suffered as a result.
