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The Unfinished Democratization of Europe (Hardcover, New)
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The widening and deepening of the European Union have brought to
the fore the question of democracy at the European level. The
system of domination already in place at the European level
requires and aspires to direct legitimation--from the citizens
themselves and not merely indirect, derived from the Member Nation
States. Such can only be achieved by making the EU into a
democratic polity.
But can democracy be disassociated from its putative nation-state
foundation? A revised concept of democratic legitimacy based on
discourse theory is developed. It is argued that post-national
democracy requires a constitution but not necessarily a state.
The Union amounts to less than a state but more than an
international organization and a system of transnational
governance. In the political theory of the multilevel constellation
that makes up the EU, it is conceived of as a regional subset of an
emerging cosmopolitan order. The EU is a state-less government. As
it is not premised on group identity, it is able to accommodate a
high measure of variance with regard to territory and function.
The book analyzes the reforms undertaken to bring the EU 'closer to
the citizens'. It documents elements of democratization and
reduction of arbitrary power. However, democracy requires that the
citizens can approve or reject the laws they are subjected to.
Since the institutional as well as the civic conditions under which
a public justification process would be deemed legitimate are not
in place, European post-national democracy remains an
unaccomplished mission.
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