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Democracy in Europe
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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
334
Release Date:
2006-12-07
Publication Date:
2006-10-19
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199266980
ISBN13:
9780199266982
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
509 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
€3,69