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The European Union: How Democratic Is It?

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December 1995 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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Taking the major issues of democracy as its starting point, this informative volume offers a wide-ranging review of democracy in the European union. It treats the union as a new type of political system within the tradition of parliamentary democracies, a system that is neither federal nor intergovernmental, which has unique problems of how to handle democratic requirements. In The European Union: How Democratic Is It? contributors deal with many of the major challenges of interest such as political parties, lobbying, and how democracy becomes the key element in the linkage between the the European Union and its member states. They also address the democratic aspects of key European Union institutions: The European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament. Offering a broad discussion of the European Union, this timely volume will be of special interest to students and professionals in the fields of politics and public administration.
Svein S Andersen and Kjell A Eliassen
Introduction
Dilemmas, Contradictions and the Future of European Democracy

 
 
PART ONE: NUMERICAL DEMOCRACY, CORPORATIVE PLURALISM AND LOBBYING IN EUROPEAN POLITICS
Mogens N Pedersen
Euro-Parties and European Parties
New Arenas, New Challenges and New Strategies

 
Svein S Andersen and Kjell A Eliassen
EU-Lobbying
Between Representativity and Effectiveness

 
Wolgang Wessels
The Modern West European State and the European Union
Democratic Erosion or a New Kind of Polity?

 
 
PART TWO: EU POLICY-MAKING AND NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Christian Lequesne
The French EU Decision-Making
Between Destablization and Adaptation

 
Cecilia Andersen
European Policy-Making and National Institutions - The Case of Belgium
Federiga Maria Bindi
Italy
In Need of More EU Democracy

 
 
PART THREE: EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS: LEGITIMACY AND DEMOCRACY
Finn Laursen
The Role of the Commission
Fiona Hayes-Renshaw
The Role of the Council
Jan E Lane, Reinert Moeland and Sven Berg
Voting Power under the EU Constitution
Juliet Lodge
The European Parliament
 
PART FOUR: THE FUTURE OF EU DEMOCRACY
Rolf Gustavsson
The European Union
1996 and beyond a Personal View from the Side-Line

 
Svein S Andersen and Tom Burns
The European Union and the Erosion of Parliamentary Democracy
A Study of Post-Parliamentary Governance

 
Svein S Andersen and Kjell A Eliassen
Democracy
Traditional Concerns in New Institutional Settings

 

`This collection of essays.... includes several useful chapters: Andersen and Burns' thoughtful essay on `post-parliamentary governance', Pedersen's treatment of Euro-cooperation between parties, Wessel's portrayal of the EU as `a new kind of polity', and excellent analyses by Laursen and Hayes-Renshaw of the Commission and Council (respectively). Lane et al. offer a particularly interesting examination of the obsolescence of majority voting in a future, much-enlarged EU' - Political Studies

`This is a timely title. The well-worn clich[ac]e - a sort of twisted verison of a Groucho Marx witticism- has it that, were the EU to apply to join itself, it would not get in. The implicit assumption, one with which most Europeans would presumably agree, is that the EU should be democratic.... the book is a welcome and thought-provoking addition to a growing literature' - Journal of Legislative Studies

Svein Andersen

Svein Andersen is a professor at the Norwegian School of Management and has held various academic positions over the last 25 years, including as a visiting professor at Berkeley and adjunct professor at the University of Oslo. He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. His teaching experience includes executive leadership and sports management. He holds two PhDs, one from the University of Oslo and one from Stanford University. More About Author

Kjell A Eliassen

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