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Inventing the EU As a Democratic Polity : Concepts, Actors and Controversies.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319944159
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 341.2422
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Contents:
Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity -- Preface -- Contents -- Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity: Introduction -- The EU as an Arena of Controversies -- The EU as a Democratic Polity? -- Concepts as Categories, Factors and Indicators -- Theoretical Premises -- Research Methodology -- What This Book Is and What It Is Not -- The Book and Its Parts -- References -- Part I The Theoretical and Methodological Toolkit -- Conceptualising Representative Democracy in the EU -- Academic Controversy on the EU as a Representative Democracy -- The Triad of Representative Democracy: Citizenship, Parliament, Government -- Citizens-Subjects-People-Sovereign-Electorate-Demos -- Parliament-Representation-Legislature -- Government-Executive -- Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Towards a Reflexive Perspective on Political Concepts -- What Is a Concept? -- The Methodological Perspective of Conceptual History -- A Heuristic and Analytical Toolbox for Studying Conceptual Change -- A Taxonomy for Studying Conceptual Change -- In Sum: A Reflexive Usage and Analysis of Concepts -- References -- Studying Conceptual Change via European Integration: A Research Agenda -- Conceptual Change and EU Integration-Lining Out the Research Field -- How to Study Conceptual Change in EU Integration? -- Concepts as Analytical Categories -- Concepts as Factors and Indicators of Institutional, Political and Social Changes in the EU -- A Wide Array of Potential Research Questions -- Discussing One Slice of the Agenda: What I Will Do in the Book -- References -- Studying Conceptual Controversies in This Book -- Conceptual Controversies and Their Reflection in Texts and Documents -- Document and Qualitative Analyses -- Determining Cases and Research Material -- Finding Out About the How and the Why in a Conceptual Controversy -- Cases and Design of the Studies in This Book.
References -- Part II Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity -- Inventing the EU: But as a Democratic Polity or a Balance of Powers? -- Early Unification Models -- Getting Started: Federalists and Unionists -- Conclusion -- References -- Towards the Bases of Representative Democracy: Parliament, Citizenry and Government -- Towards the European Union -- A Neofunctionalist Success Model? -- Inventing the Sovereign? European Citizenship -- Parliamentarising the EEC, EC and EU -- Governmentalisation-Commission and EC -- In Conclusion -- References -- Who Did It, When and How? Treaty Changes, Law Implementation and Interinstitutional Micro-politics -- Shaping the EU System via Treaty Changes and Law Making -- Shaping the EU System by Law Implementation -- Shaping the EU System from Within: EU Institutions as Political Actors -- Interinstitutional Micro-politics as a Means of Empowering the EP -- Studying Interinstitutional Micro-politics -- References -- A Dynamic Perspective on the EP's Power Gains: Studying Interinstitutional Micro-politics -- The Fall of the Santer Commission and the Approval of the Prodi Commission -- The Approval of the Barroso Commission -- Micro-politics and Power Gains: The Decisive Factors -- References -- Inventing and Shaping EU Citizens -- Implementing Conceptual Innovations: The Case of the Development of EU Citizenship -- Citizenship Rights in the Treaty of Rome -- Creating and Interpreting Union Citizenship -- Implementing Union Citizenship: The Example of the Right to Free Movement -- Shaping the Principle of Non-discrimination -- In Conclusion -- References -- Part III The EU as a Supranational Democratic Polity? -- A Defective Supranational Democracy? Government, Parliament, Head of State in the EU System -- Head of State, Government, Parliament and What Else? -- The EU's Institutions.
Who's What-Parliament, Government, Head of State? -- Assessing the EU's Current Balance of Powers -- The EU's Democratic Deficits -- Recent Changes and Their Impact on the EU's Quality of Democracy -- Conclusion -- References -- Parliamentarism and the European Parliament -- The EP as a Deficient Parliament? -- Deliberation, Representation, Sovereignty and Responsibility in the EP -- The EP as a Specific Parliament -- The EP as an Agent of EU Democratisation -- Conclusion -- References -- European Council: Government, Parliament, President or Congress of Ambassadors? -- The Rules of Procedure of the EC as a Framework for Political Action -- Politics of Time -- Membership and Election -- Agenda Politics -- Non-public EC Meetings -- Suspicion About the Vote -- Conclusion -- References -- Citizenship and Democracy in the EU -- Citizenship and Its Four Dimensions -- EU Citizenship and Democracy: Elements, Particularities and Flaws -- EU Citizenship Is a Derived, Sectoral, Multilevel, Passive, Legal Citizenship Without Duties -- Citizenship Development and Democratisation: A Comparative Look on the Nation State -- Does the EU Need a demos and an Identity? -- The Chicken and Egg Question of demos-Building -- What Is European Identity? -- Empirical Findings -- Citizenship and Democracy in the EU: Conclusions -- References -- Part IV The Inner Market, Multi-level Governance and Democracy -- Democracy in the European Union in Times of Global Financialised Capitalism -- Global Financialised Capitalism, Democracy and the EU -- A Depoliticised EU as the Basis for Economic Deregulation -- Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- Citizenship, Social Rights and Democracy -- The Function of Social Rights in the Citizenship Acquis -- Social Rights and Their Ideational Background -- Social Rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights -- Assessing EU Citizenship Rights.
Negative Integration and Social Rights in the Multilevel System -- Conclusion -- References -- Parliaments Versus Executives in the Financial Crisis -- Assessing Power Shares in Financial Aid Governance: A Benchmark -- Governance of Financial Aid: Balance of Powers and Representative Democracy on the EU Level -- Troika: Agent or Executive? -- Governing Financial Aid: Democracy and Balance of Powers in Debtor and Donor States -- Effects on the Balances of Powers in and Between Debtor and Donor States -- The External Judgement -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Conclusion: The EU as a Democratic Polity? -- Separating the Conceptual Clusters -- Incremental Problems for Democracy -- Challenging the Triad of Representative Democracy in the Member States -- Approaching Possible Solutions -- Safeguarding the Democratic Substance -- Taming Global Financialised Capitalism? -- Politicisation -- Creating an EU demos? -- Possible Steps -- References -- Index.
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Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity -- Preface -- Contents -- Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity: Introduction -- The EU as an Arena of Controversies -- The EU as a Democratic Polity? -- Concepts as Categories, Factors and Indicators -- Theoretical Premises -- Research Methodology -- What This Book Is and What It Is Not -- The Book and Its Parts -- References -- Part I The Theoretical and Methodological Toolkit -- Conceptualising Representative Democracy in the EU -- Academic Controversy on the EU as a Representative Democracy -- The Triad of Representative Democracy: Citizenship, Parliament, Government -- Citizens-Subjects-People-Sovereign-Electorate-Demos -- Parliament-Representation-Legislature -- Government-Executive -- Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Towards a Reflexive Perspective on Political Concepts -- What Is a Concept? -- The Methodological Perspective of Conceptual History -- A Heuristic and Analytical Toolbox for Studying Conceptual Change -- A Taxonomy for Studying Conceptual Change -- In Sum: A Reflexive Usage and Analysis of Concepts -- References -- Studying Conceptual Change via European Integration: A Research Agenda -- Conceptual Change and EU Integration-Lining Out the Research Field -- How to Study Conceptual Change in EU Integration? -- Concepts as Analytical Categories -- Concepts as Factors and Indicators of Institutional, Political and Social Changes in the EU -- A Wide Array of Potential Research Questions -- Discussing One Slice of the Agenda: What I Will Do in the Book -- References -- Studying Conceptual Controversies in This Book -- Conceptual Controversies and Their Reflection in Texts and Documents -- Document and Qualitative Analyses -- Determining Cases and Research Material -- Finding Out About the How and the Why in a Conceptual Controversy -- Cases and Design of the Studies in This Book.

References -- Part II Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity -- Inventing the EU: But as a Democratic Polity or a Balance of Powers? -- Early Unification Models -- Getting Started: Federalists and Unionists -- Conclusion -- References -- Towards the Bases of Representative Democracy: Parliament, Citizenry and Government -- Towards the European Union -- A Neofunctionalist Success Model? -- Inventing the Sovereign? European Citizenship -- Parliamentarising the EEC, EC and EU -- Governmentalisation-Commission and EC -- In Conclusion -- References -- Who Did It, When and How? Treaty Changes, Law Implementation and Interinstitutional Micro-politics -- Shaping the EU System via Treaty Changes and Law Making -- Shaping the EU System by Law Implementation -- Shaping the EU System from Within: EU Institutions as Political Actors -- Interinstitutional Micro-politics as a Means of Empowering the EP -- Studying Interinstitutional Micro-politics -- References -- A Dynamic Perspective on the EP's Power Gains: Studying Interinstitutional Micro-politics -- The Fall of the Santer Commission and the Approval of the Prodi Commission -- The Approval of the Barroso Commission -- Micro-politics and Power Gains: The Decisive Factors -- References -- Inventing and Shaping EU Citizens -- Implementing Conceptual Innovations: The Case of the Development of EU Citizenship -- Citizenship Rights in the Treaty of Rome -- Creating and Interpreting Union Citizenship -- Implementing Union Citizenship: The Example of the Right to Free Movement -- Shaping the Principle of Non-discrimination -- In Conclusion -- References -- Part III The EU as a Supranational Democratic Polity? -- A Defective Supranational Democracy? Government, Parliament, Head of State in the EU System -- Head of State, Government, Parliament and What Else? -- The EU's Institutions.

Who's What-Parliament, Government, Head of State? -- Assessing the EU's Current Balance of Powers -- The EU's Democratic Deficits -- Recent Changes and Their Impact on the EU's Quality of Democracy -- Conclusion -- References -- Parliamentarism and the European Parliament -- The EP as a Deficient Parliament? -- Deliberation, Representation, Sovereignty and Responsibility in the EP -- The EP as a Specific Parliament -- The EP as an Agent of EU Democratisation -- Conclusion -- References -- European Council: Government, Parliament, President or Congress of Ambassadors? -- The Rules of Procedure of the EC as a Framework for Political Action -- Politics of Time -- Membership and Election -- Agenda Politics -- Non-public EC Meetings -- Suspicion About the Vote -- Conclusion -- References -- Citizenship and Democracy in the EU -- Citizenship and Its Four Dimensions -- EU Citizenship and Democracy: Elements, Particularities and Flaws -- EU Citizenship Is a Derived, Sectoral, Multilevel, Passive, Legal Citizenship Without Duties -- Citizenship Development and Democratisation: A Comparative Look on the Nation State -- Does the EU Need a demos and an Identity? -- The Chicken and Egg Question of demos-Building -- What Is European Identity? -- Empirical Findings -- Citizenship and Democracy in the EU: Conclusions -- References -- Part IV The Inner Market, Multi-level Governance and Democracy -- Democracy in the European Union in Times of Global Financialised Capitalism -- Global Financialised Capitalism, Democracy and the EU -- A Depoliticised EU as the Basis for Economic Deregulation -- Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- Citizenship, Social Rights and Democracy -- The Function of Social Rights in the Citizenship Acquis -- Social Rights and Their Ideational Background -- Social Rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights -- Assessing EU Citizenship Rights.

Negative Integration and Social Rights in the Multilevel System -- Conclusion -- References -- Parliaments Versus Executives in the Financial Crisis -- Assessing Power Shares in Financial Aid Governance: A Benchmark -- Governance of Financial Aid: Balance of Powers and Representative Democracy on the EU Level -- Troika: Agent or Executive? -- Governing Financial Aid: Democracy and Balance of Powers in Debtor and Donor States -- Effects on the Balances of Powers in and Between Debtor and Donor States -- The External Judgement -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Conclusion: The EU as a Democratic Polity? -- Separating the Conceptual Clusters -- Incremental Problems for Democracy -- Challenging the Triad of Representative Democracy in the Member States -- Approaching Possible Solutions -- Safeguarding the Democratic Substance -- Taming Global Financialised Capitalism? -- Politicisation -- Creating an EU demos? -- Possible Steps -- References -- Index.

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