Is the European Union democratic? Much has been written claiming
that the EU's institutions and policymaking processes are
insufficiently accountable to, and representative of, the European
electorate. In Democratic Deficit?, Thomas D. Zweifel offers a
provocative new treatment of the concept of democracy in the EU.
The work provides a rigorous, comparative examination of the
European Union and the federal democracies of Switzerland and the
United States. Drawing upon established, quantifiable scales of
democracy, the study demonstrates that the EU's decision-making and
regulatory processes do not show a democratic deficit greater than
that of the bureaucracies of most liberal democracies and finds
that in certain policy areas liberal democracies may even benefit
from adopting EU practices. Supported by two case studies comparing
regulatory policymaking in action across the three polities,
Zweifel's work will prove to be a valuable and thought-provoking
addition to the debate about European governance and the
increasingly important role of transnational and supranational
organizations.
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