The European Union

Democratic Principles and Institutional Architectures in Times of Crisis
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-871627-3
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

This book seeks to answer the question 'Which institutional architecture for which kind of democracy for the EU?' by bringing two important recent debates together- the institutional analysis of the Union and its democratic assessment. The book examines a series of institutional architectures in light of the democratic quality of the processes and decisions generated by them.

The discussion of these various institutional architectures is preceded by an analysis of the democratic values and principles according to which institutional architectures and governance structures should be assessed. The first part of the volume starts from key democratic principles and indicates which institutional architectures are most likely to embody them. The second part is dedicated to those institutional architectures that best describe the current state of the European Union and its likely future development, particularly given the impact of the current economic crisis. The fundamental belief that animates this volume is that it is only by paying attention to the democratic legitimacy of the Union that the process of European integration may hope to be sustainable, particularly in the face of the difficult economic crisis that the members of the Euro-area and the Union in general are experiencing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piattoni, Simona

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I - Introduction

- 1: Simona Piattoni: The European Union: Legitimating Values, Democratic Principles and Institutional Architectures

- PART II - Democratic Principles

- 2: John Erik Fossum and Johannes Pollak: Which Democratic Principles for the European Union? What Deficit?

- 3: Hans Agné: Popular Power in the European Union: Delegated or Alienated?

- 4: Ben Crum and Deirdre Curtin: The Challenge of Making European Union Executive Power Accountable

- 5: Stijn Smismans: Democratic Participation and the Search for a European Union Institutional Architecture that Accommodates Interests and Expertise

- 6: Sandra Kröger: Democratic Representation as the Normative and Organizing Principle of the European Union

- PART III - Institutional Architectures

- 7: Kalypso Nicolaidis: Demoicratic Theory and Europe's Institutional Architecture in Times of Crisis

- 8: Michael Burgess: Federal Imperatives in the Institutional Evolution of the European Union

- 9: Sergio Fabbrini: Alternative Views: Which Institutional Architecture for a Political Union?

- 10: Arthur Benz: Multilevel Governance in the European Union: Loosely-Coupled Arenas of Representation, Participation and Accountability

- 11: Jürgen Neyer: Empowering the Sovereign: National Parliaments in European Union Monetary and Financial Policy

- PART IV - Conclusion

- 12: Simona Piattoni: European Union Institutional Architectures: Structural Tensions, Dynamic Forces and the Advantages of Hapticity

Über Autor(innen)

Simona Piattoni (BA/MA Economics, Bocconi University; PhD Political Science, MIT) is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, Italy.