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Europe's Hidden Federalism - Federal Experiences of European Integration (Hardcover)
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Europe's Hidden Federalism - Federal Experiences of European Integration (Hardcover)
Series: Federalism Studies
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The hidden federal features of the European Union help explain the
challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom that face an
unfinished political community. Ideas about federalism and the
reality of existing federal states cannot be sharply divided in an
analysis of the EU's multilevel political order, but so far, both
scholars and major decision makers have shown interest only in the
normal functioning of federal systems: ignoring the dilemma of the
federation's legitimate authority has resulted in an existential
crisis for the EU which has become ever more manifest over recent
years. This book employs a combination of political philosophy and
political science, of federal philosophic ideas and their traces in
real federal institutions, in order to achieve the task of
understanding the federal features of the EU governance system. The
first part of the work focuses on building an appropriate
theoretical framework to explain the new meanings attached to
familiar notions of democracy, legitimacy and citizenship in the
context of a political community like the EU. In the second part
the federal features of the EU's political system are examined in
comparison to other current and historical federal perspectives
like the US, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Germany. Through an
analysis of the hidden federal aspects of the EU and the links
between hidden federalism and the EU's legitimacy crisis, this book
reveals the patterns that should be avoided and gives us guidelines
that should be followed if the EU is to become democratic and
politically united without jeopardising the state character of its
members.
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