The European Union (eBook, PDF)

Democratic Principles and Institutional Architectures in Times of Crisis
Redaktion: Piattoni, Simona

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191025570
• Artikelnr.: 43404364

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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