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Democracy in the European Union: Integration Through Deliberation?
Contributor(s): Eriksen, Erik Oddvar (Editor), Fossum, John Erik (Editor)
ISBN: 0415225922     ISBN-13: 9780415225922
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $30.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2000
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Annotation: This book asks how the type of cooperation that the EU is based on can be explained; what are the integrative forces in the EU and how can integration at a supra-national level come about? The key thinkers represented in this volume stress that in order to understand integration beyond the nation state, we need new explanatory categories associated with deliberation because a supranational entity as the EU posesses far weaker and less well-developed means of coercion - bargaining resources - than do states. The most appropriate term to denote this is the notion of 'deliberative supranationalism'.
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy
- Political Science | Comparative Politics
- Political Science | International Relations - General
Dewey: 320.94
LCCN: 99039942
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.18" W x 9.25" (1.09 lbs) 328 pages
 
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The European Union is widely held to suffer from a democratic deficit, and this raises a wider question: can democracy at all be applied to decision-making bodies beyond the nation state? Today, the EU is a highly complex entity undergoing profound changes. This book asks how the type of cooperation that the EU is based on can be explained; what are the integrative forces in the EU and how can integration at a supra-national level come about?
The key thinkers represented in this volume stress that in order to understand integration beyond the nation state, we need new explanatory categories associated with deliberation because a supranational entity as the EU posesses far weaker and less well-developed means of coercion - bargaining resources - than do states. The most appropriate term to denote this is the notion of 'deliberative supranationalism'. This pioneering work, headed by major writers such as Habermas, Schlesinger and Bellamy, brings a new perspective to this key issue in contemporary politics and political theory.