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Subnational Democracy in the European Union - Challenges and Opportunities (Paperback, New ed)
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Subnational Democracy in the European Union - Challenges and Opportunities (Paperback, New ed)
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This book is the result of a research project carried out for the
Committee of the Regions and analyses the 'state of play' of
democratic practice at the subnational level in all of the European
Member states. Its initial hypothesis was that liberal democracy is
closely associated with the rise of the nation state in the 19th
century. The nation state, however, has been significantly changing
under the impact of various forces including globalization and
regionalization, internal reforms of the public administration
system such as privatization and deregulation, and the emergence of
regions and local authorities as actors in their own rights. these
changes pose challenges for the practice of democracy and, in
particular, for its expression at the regional and local level. The
book deals with the theoretical implications of these changes in
terms of the changing nature of the state and new regionalism.
However, one of the key findings is that there is no one uniform
meaning of democracy across member states and there are variations
even within a single state depending on whether the national or
subnational levels are considered. Each country chapter gives the
historical and philosophical background to the concept of democracy
in each country. There is also an exposition of the institutional
expression of democracy at the different levels. With regard to the
practice of democracy at the subnational level, the role of
pressure groups and policy networks is examined as well as the role
of political parties. There is a survey of critiques of subnational
democracy. Finally, there is a survey of innovative approaches to
improving regional and local democracy through a variety of
mechanisms and reforms as ways of responding to the challenge and
opportunities facing it today
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