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Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities
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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:
- 2006-12-07
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0199266980
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 517 g
- Height:
- 1.8 cm
- Width:
- 23.2 cm
- Thickness:
- 15.5 cm
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The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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