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The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union

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Editors:
  1. Sandra Kröger

    1. Centre for European Governance, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

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  2. Dawid Friedrich

    1. Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Political Representation in the EU: A Second Transformation?

      • Sandra Kröger, Dawid Friedrich
      Pages 3-20

  5. Repercussions of the EU on Political Representation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. From the Margins of European Integration to the Guardians of the Treaties? The Role of National Parliaments in the EU

      • Tapio Raunio
      Pages 175-191

    3. The Europeanization of Regional Assemblies: A Comparison between Different Ways of Approaching the Representative Challenge in EU Affairs

      • Elena Griglio
      Pages 192-208

    4. Interest Representation in the EU — Is There Any? A Top-Down Perspective

      • Stijn Smismans
      Pages 209-225

    5. Democracy Promoter or Interest Defender? How the European Commission Influences Non-Electoral Representation by Civil Society Organizations

      • Sandra Kröger
      Pages 226-240

    6. Representing Workers or Presenting EU Prescriptions? Trade Unions from Post-Socialist Member States in EU Multi-Level Governance

      • Heiko Pleines
      Pages 241-255

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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What does political representation in the European Union look like? This volume argues that the transformation of representation in the EU is characterized by diversification processes, albeit with an uncertain ability to re-configure the link between representation and democracy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for European Governance, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

    Sandra Kröger

  • Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

    Dawid Friedrich

About the editors

PIETER DE WILDE Senior Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany CRISTINA FASONE PhD candidate in Comparative Public Law at the University of Siena, Italy ELENA GRIGLIO Research Fellow in Public Comparative Law at the Luiss Guido Carli of Rome, Italy ERIK JENTGES Post-doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Studies at the University of Zürich, Switzerland HÅKAN JOHANSSON Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, Lund University, Sweden AKOS KOPPER Researcher at PERIPATO Research Group, ELTE University and Lecturer at the Graduate School of Social Sciences of ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary ASIMINA MICHAILIDOU Post-doctoral researcher at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway SIMONA PIATTONI Professor of European Integration Politics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria HEIKO PLEINES Head of the Section on Politics and Economy of the Center for Central and East European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany JOHANNES POLLAK Head of the Political Science Department of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria TAPIO RAUNIO Professor in Political Science at the University of Tampere, Finland MEIKE RODEKAMP Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State', University of Bremen, Germany EMMANUEL SIGALAS Post-doctoral Researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria STIJN SMISMANS Professor in Law and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Law and Governance at Cardiff University, UK HANS-JÖRG TRENZ Professor at ARENA, Oslo, Norway

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