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Democracy in the European Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Democracy in the European Union

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-09-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The European Union is widely held to suffer from a democratic deficit, and this raises a wider question: can democracy at all be applied to decision-making bodies beyond the nation state? Today, the EU is a highly complex entity undergoing profound changes. This book asks how the type of cooperation that the EU is based on can be explained; what are the integrative forces in the EU and how can integration at a supra-national level come about? The key thinkers represented in this volume stress that in order to understand integration beyond the nation state, we need new explanatory categories associated with deliberation because a supranational entity as the EU posesses far weaker and less well-developed means of coercion - bargaining resources - than do states. The most appropriate term to denote this is the notion of 'deliberative supranationalism'. This pioneering work, headed by major writers such as Habermas, Schlesinger and Bellamy, brings a new perspective to this key issue in contemporary politics and political theory.

Squaring the Circle on Brexit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Squaring the Circle on Brexit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-16
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This important book provides the first systematic assessment of the so-called Norway Model, suggested as an off-the-shelf option for the UK to ‘square the circle’ after Brexit. Two preeminent Norwegian scholars of politics and law offer a comprehensive first-hand account of Norway’s relationship with the EU and how this affects the country’s legal and political system, setting out what Britain can learn from Norway’s experience and how transferable these lessons are. Their analysis also explores what impact the UK’s presence is likely to have on existing members of the European Economic Area (EEA) discussing both the opportunities and the challenges. The book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the future of the UK’s relationship with Europe.

The European Union and the Public Sphere
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

The European Union and the Public Sphere

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-06-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The European Union is often attacked for its ‘democratic deficit’, namely its deficiencies in representation, transparency, accountability and lack of popular support. This book assesses the possible formation of a communicative space that might enable and engender the creation of a transnational or a supranational public.

The European Union's Non-Members
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

The European Union's Non-Members

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The EU is a supranational organization, whose reach and influence extends well beyond its member states, especially to the many states that have signed various forms of association agreement with it. This book asks whether qualifying states who have eschewed EU membership experience negative effects on their legal and political self-governing abilities, or whether they manage their independence with few such effects. It explores the idea that the closer the affiliation a non-member state has with the EU, the more susceptible to hegemony the relationship appears to be. In addition, the book provides an overview of the total range of agreements the EU has with non-member states. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of in EU/European studies, Scandinavian studies, European and comparative politics, international relations, and democratization studies.

Developing a Constitution for Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Developing a Constitution for Europe

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-08-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The European Union is currently in the midst of a comprehensive process of reform and the aim of this book is to address the challenge of forging a legitimate Constitution for the EU. These authors clarify the constitutional status of the EU, to take stock of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and Convention of the Future of Europe as vehicles to foster and create a European constitution.

Rethinking Democracy and the European Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

Rethinking Democracy and the European Union

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

While the Lisbon treaty was meant to clarify the European Union’s role and political identity, it remains a challenge for politicians and decision-makers to define. Rethinking Democracy and the European Union looks at both the concept of the EU as a political system, and analyses the meaning and status of democracy in Europe today. This book draws upon leading scholars and practitioners from the RECON project (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe) to frame and analyse a range of institutional realms and policy fields, including constitutionalisation, representative developments, gender politics, civil society and public sphere, identity, and security and globalisation. Drawing together these...

Federal Challenges and Challenges to Federalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Federal Challenges and Challenges to Federalism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-14
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Discussing what we may learn from thinking about the EU in federal terms represents a two-fold challenge. It is on the one hand a matter of establishing 'how federal' the EU is (the EU's federal challenge). On the other, the EU has federal features but is not a state, thus raising the question of whether federal theory and practice may have to be adapted to take proper account of the EU (the EU's challenge to federalism). The contributions to this collection supplement and extend existing scholarship through focusing on two important lines of inquiry. The first focuses on the relationship between federalism and democracy, with particular emphasis on how federal systems respond to and deal wi...

Oil, the State, and Federalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

Oil, the State, and Federalism

John Erik Fossum explores the reasons for the federal government's intervention in the energy industry between 1973 and 1984 and shows how its initial objectives failed, culminating in the privatization of Petro-Canada in 1990.

Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory

This volume offers a collection of articles by leading legal and political theorists. Originally intended as a celebration of MacCormick’s work on the occasion of the completion of the four-volume series on Law, State and Practical Reason, it has turned into a homage and salute after MacCormick’s passing. Cast in MacCormick’s reflexive spirit, the book presents a critical reconstruction of the Scottish philosopher’s work, with the aim of revealing the connections between law and democracy in his writings and furthering his insights in each specific field. Neil MacCormick made outstanding contributions to the understanding of law and democracy under conditions of pluralism. His institutional theory of law has elucidated the close connection between the normative character of law as a means of social integration and legal social practices. This has produced a synthesis of the key insights of the legal and political theories of Kelsen, Hart, Alexy and Dworkin, and has broken new ground by undermining the ‘monolithic’ and ‘nation-state’ centered character of standard legal theories.

Politics of Last Resort
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Politics of Last Resort

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The book examines how a certain way of governing, invoking exceptional measures for exceptional times, has become central to the workings of the European Union.