This book examines the democratic legitimacy of the European Union
(EU) and evaluates the democratic credentials of the EU's main
decision-making procedure. It finds that though there is potential
for democratic decision-making in the EU, the actual process is
dominated by technocrats and secret meetings. The book assesses and
discusses the conditions for democratic input in decision-making
with five empirical chapters each addressing the ordinary
legislative procedure from different dimensions: democratic
deliberative forums, inclusion, openness, power neutralising
mechanisms and decision-making capacity. The analytical framework
provides for an in-depth assessment of the ordinary legislative
procedure's potential democratic qualities and examines whether it
fulfils democratic criteria, how the procedure works in practice
and whether it has the necessary democratic clout. The author
provides both a theoretical discussion and an empirical assessment
of what role the principle of democracy could play in the EU.
Filling a gap in EU legislative studies and contributing to the
debate on the European democratic deficit, Democratic
Decision-making in the EU will be of interest to students and
scholars of European Union politics, legislative studies and
deliberative democracy.
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