Dobson / Follesdal Political Theory and the European Constitution

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-29704-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

In June 2003, the Convention on the Future of Europe released what may become the Constitution of the European Union. This timely volume provides one of the first critical assessments of the draft Constitution from the vantage point of political theory.

The work combines detailed institutional analysis with normative political theory, bringing theoretical analysis to bear on the pressing issues of institutional design answered - or bypassed - by the draft Constitution. It addresses several themes that play out differently in federal arrangements than in unitary political orders:

* European values, especially the legitimate role of alleged common values
* liberty and powers - how does the draft Constitution address competing normative preferences?
* the European interest: the noble words regarding common European objectives and values are often muddled or conflated, different actors intending quite different things. Several chapters contribute to clarifying the different senses of these terms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dobson, Lynn

Follesdal, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Lynn Dobson and Andreas Føllesdal

Part 1: Constitutionalising a multinational federation?

1. 'Is federalism for Europe a solution or a problem: Tocqueville inverted, perverted or subverted?' Philippe C. Schmitter

2. 'The EU as a Self-sustaining Federation: Specifying the Constitutional Conditions' David McKay, University of Essex

3. 'A Union of Peoples? Diversity and the Predicaments of a Multinational Polity' Peter A. Kraus

Part 2: Philosophical contestations: the Convention process

1. 'The Normality of Constitutional Politics: an Analysis of the Drafting of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights' Richard Bellamy and Justus Schönlau

2. 'Europe united under God or not - or both?' Tore Vincents Olsen

3. 'The Open Method of Co-ordination in the European Convention: an opportunity lost?' Myrto Tsakatika

Part 3: The Union's values: liberty, democracy, transparency, and rights

1. 'Liberty and power in the Constitution' Lynn Dobson

2, 'The constitutional labelling of 'the democratic life of the EU': representative and 'participatory' democracy' Stijn Smismans

3. 'Transparency and output legitimacy' Daniel Naurin

4. 'An institutional dialogue on common principles. The significance of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights' Claudia Attucci

5. 'Motivating Judges. Democracy, Judicial Discretion, and the European Court of Human Rights' Roberto Gargarella

6. Conclusion: Andreas Føllesdal and Lynn Dobson

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn Dobson is Lecturer in European and International Politics at the University of Edinburgh

Andreas Follesdal is Research Professor at ARENA - Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-State - at the Research Council of Norway, and Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo.