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Centripetal Democracy - Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union (Hardcover)
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Centripetal Democracy - Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union (Hardcover)
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Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic
institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and
representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of
political identity formation. Partisan modes of political
representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct
democratic voting opportunities are emphasised on this model. There
is, however, a strain of thought predominant in political theory
that doubts the democratic capacities of political systems
constituted by multiple public spheres. This view is referred to as
the lingua franca thesis on sustainable democratic systems (LFT).
Inadequate democratic institutions and acute demands to divide the
political system (through devolution or secession), are predicted
by this thesis. By combining an original normative democratic
theory with a comparative analysis of how Belgium and Switzerland
have variously managed to sustain themselves as multilingual
democracies, this book identifies the main institutional features
of a democratically legitimate European Union and the conditions
required to bring it about. Part One presents a novel theory of
democratic legitimacy and political identity formation on which
subsequent analyses are based. Part Two defines the EU as a
demoi-cracy and provides a thorough democratic assessment of this
political system. Part Three explains why Belgium has largely
succumbed to the centrifugal logic predicted by the LFT, while
Switzerland apparently defies this logic. Part Four presents a
model of centripetal democracy for the EU, one that would greatly
reduce its democratic deficit and ensure that this political system
does not succumb to the centrifugal forces expected by the LFT.
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