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"If you are interested in understanding the reasons and causes of the democratic disenchantment that is undermining the European project, Vauchez's book is a must read. He argues, in a convincing and innovative manner, that the solution is not to be sought in an increase in classic electoral legitimacy, but rather in the democratization of the functioning of the European independent institutions who are the true locus of power in the EU" - Pierre Rosanvallon, Professor, Chair in Modern and Contemporary History of Politics, Collège de France
'An important new contribution on the perennial debate over Europe's democratic deficit which takes the least likely institutional candidates for addressing it and demonstrates convincingly that the hope for improvement may lie there. Under Vauchez's inspired pen, the so-called independents come alive and become the dramatis personae of the European drama." - Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, UK
"Vauchez makes a strong point that much of the thinking on European democracy rests on wrong premises. This book is a must-read for future studies." - Armin von Bogdandy, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Antoine Vauchez is CNRS Research professor at Université Paris 1-Sorbonne. He has published extensively on expertise and politics in contemporary European democracies and the EU, notably Brokering Europe: Euro-lawyers and the Making of a Transnational Polity (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democratizing Europe
Authors: Antoine Vauchez
Series Title: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540911
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54090-4Published: 03 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54091-1Published: 09 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3637
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3645
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 92
Topics: Democracy, European Union Politics, Political Science