0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy

Buy Now

Democracy in Europe - The EU and National Polities (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,112
Discovery Miles 41 120
Democracy in Europe - The EU and National Polities (Hardcover): Vivien A. Schmidt

Democracy in Europe - The EU and National Polities (Hardcover)

Vivien A. Schmidt

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,112 Discovery Miles 41 120 | Repayment Terms: R385 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

Democracy in Europe is about the impact of European integration on national democracies. It argues that the oft-cited democratic deficit is indeed a problem, but not so much at the level of the European Union per se as at the national level. This is because national leaders and publics have
yet to come to terms with the institutional impact of the EU on the traditional workings of their national democracies.
The book begins with a discussion of what the EU is-a new form of 'regional state' in which sovereignty is shared, boundaries are variable, identity composite, and democracy fragmented. It then goes on to examine the effects of this on EU member-states' institutions and ideas about democracy,
finding that institutional 'fit' matters. The 'compound' EU, in which governing activity is highly dispersed among multiple authorities, is more disruptive to 'simple' polities like Britain and France, where governing activity has traditionally been more concentrated in a single authority, than to
similarly 'compound' polities like Germany and Italy.
But the book concludes that the real problem for member-states is not so much that their practices have changed as that national ideas and discourse about democracy have not. The failure has been one of the 'communicative' discourse to the general public-which again has been more pronounced for
simple polities, despite their potentially greater capacity to communicate through a single voice, than for compound polities, where the 'coordinative' discourse among policy actors predominates.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2006
First published: December 2006
Authors: Vivien A. Schmidt
Dimensions: 240 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926697-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
Promotions
LSN: 0-19-926697-2
Barcode: 9780199266975

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Power In Action - Democracy, Citizenship…
Steven Friedman Paperback R351 Discovery Miles 3 510
Democracy Works - Re-Wiring Politics To…
Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, … Paperback R320 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900
How To Steal A Country - State Capture…
Robin Renwick Paperback R352 Discovery Miles 3 520
Race, Class And The Post-Apartheid…
John Reynolds, Ben Fine, … Paperback R290 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680
A Promised Land
Barack Obama Hardcover  (6)
R930 R795 Discovery Miles 7 950
This Will Not Pass - Trump, Biden, And…
Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns Hardcover R782 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990
Countdown 1960 - The Behind-The-Scenes…
Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss Hardcover R817 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610
A Manifesto For Social Change - How To…
Moeletsi Mbeki, Nobantu Mbeki Paperback  (4)
R230 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090
Writing The Decline - On The Struggle…
Richard Pithouse Paperback R280 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590
South Africa, Settler Colonialism And…
Thiven Reddy Paperback R330 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050
Landslide - The Final Days Of The Trump…
Michael Wolff Paperback R296 Discovery Miles 2 960
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
Bernie Sanders Hardcover R585 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300

See more

Partners