Democracy in the European Union: Integration Through Deliberation? - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415225914 ISBN 13: 9780415225915

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Erik Oddvar Eriksen is professor at ARENA, University of Oslo, and senior-researcher at LOS Centre, University of Bergen. John Erik Fossum is an associate professor in the department of Administration and Organisation Theory, at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415225914
• ISBN 13: 9780415225915
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 324
• Redattore: Eriksen Erik Oddvar, Fossum John Erik
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile