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Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity

Concepts, Actors and Controversies

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Authors:
  1. Claudia Wiesner

    1. Department for Social and Cultural Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany

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  • Offers a different view of the EU as a polity to discuss its so-called deficit of democratic legitimacy
  • Concentrates on the range of controversies related to democracy, representation and parliament in the EU system
  • Focuses on the concepts defining European Integration as socially constructed and indicators of the reality they describe

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity: Introduction

    • Claudia Wiesner
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Theoretical and Methodological Toolkit

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Conceptualising Representative Democracy in the EU

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 25-42

    3. Towards a Reflexive Perspective on Political Concepts

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 43-56

    4. Studying Conceptual Change via European Integration: A Research Agenda

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 57-69

    5. Studying Conceptual Controversies in This Book

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 71-81

  5. The EU as a Supranational Democratic Polity?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. A Defective Supranational Democracy? Government, Parliament, Head of State in the EU System

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 165-184

    3. Parliamentarism and the European Parliament

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 185-198

    4. European Council: Government, Parliament, President or Congress of Ambassadors?

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 199-213

    5. Citizenship and Democracy in the EU

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 215-233

  6. The Inner Market, Multi-level Governance and Democracy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Democracy in the European Union in Times of Global Financialised Capitalism

      • Claudia Wiesner
      Pages 237-247
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About this book

The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic Europe differ considerably. The processes of inventing and building a democratic EU are marked by conceptual controversies in both public and academic debates. These are the resource for the present book, which focuses on the concepts, actors and controversies related to inventing the EU as a democratic polity. The chapters study exemplary long-term and detail cases related to inventing and institutionalizing the decisive elements of representative democracy in the EU—a parliament, citizens that vote for it in universal suffrage and governmental bodies that are linked to parliament in much the same way as government is in a parliamentary democracy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department for Social and Cultural Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany

    Claudia Wiesner

About the author

Claudia Wiesner is Professor for Political science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and adjunct Professor in Political Science at Jyväskylä
University, Finland. Her main research interests lie in the comparative study of democracy, political culture and political sociology in the EU multilevel system. Wiesner´s second field of research is Public Policy, its evaluation, reform and theory.


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