Federal And Regional States In The Perspective Of European Integration

Author : European Commission for Democracy through Law
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287141309
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal and Regional States in the Perspective of European Integration written by European Commission for Democracy through Law and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bojan Kovacevic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317138996
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe's Hidden Federalism written by Bojan Kovacevic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden federal features of the European Union help explain the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom that face an unfinished political community. Ideas about federalism and the reality of existing federal states cannot be sharply divided in an analysis of the EU’s multilevel political order, but so far, both scholars and major decision makers have shown interest only in the normal functioning of federal systems: ignoring the dilemma of the federation’s legitimate authority has resulted in an existential crisis for the EU which has become ever more manifest over recent years. This book employs a combination of political philosophy and political science, of federal philosophic ideas and their traces in real federal institutions, in order to achieve the task of understanding the federal features of the EU governance system. The first part of the work focuses on building an appropriate theoretical framework to explain the new meanings attached to familiar notions of democracy, legitimacy and citizenship in the context of a political community like the EU. In the second part the federal features of the EU’s political system are examined in comparison to other current and historical federal perspectives like the US, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Germany. Through an analysis of the hidden federal aspects of the EU and the links between hidden federalism and the EU’s legitimacy crisis, this book reveals the patterns that should be avoided and gives us guidelines that should be followed if the EU is to become democratic and politically united without jeopardising the state character of its members.

Author : Maura Adshead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351730460
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing European Regions? written by Maura Adshead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Developing European Regions? presents a novel approach to the analysis of European regional policy and uses network analysis as an innovative instrument to understand the integration process within individual countries. The book develops a convincing argument about the different manifestation of integration in Ireland, Britain and Germany resulting from the implementation of European Union (EU) structural policy in specific domestic contexts. Employing a distinctive methodology designed to overcome some of the problems associated with cross-national comparison and studies of European integration, the case studies chosen enable a substantive comparison of the impact of EU involvement in policy and associated developments in governance upon federal and unitary systems of governance. Suitable for audience of area specialists, regional politics, sub-national governance, comparative politics and public administration, public policy analysis and network theory, as well as European studies and European integration theory, the book is an extremely useful contribution to the literature.

Author : Gabriele Abels
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788978625
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Governance in the EU written by Gabriele Abels and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of regions in the European Union has been frequently debated since the 1980s. This comprehensive book provides a thorough overview of the issue from a variety of perspectives, analysing regional governance and territorial dynamics in the EU and its member states. Focusing on the implications of the democratisation–regionalisation nexus, it argues that a ‘Europe with the regions’ may promote good governance and ameliorate the democratic deficits of the EU.

Author : Joachim Jens Hesse
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198279921
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federalizing Europe? written by Joachim Jens Hesse and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The constitutional and institutional development of the European Union, and federalism in particular, are widely and intensively debated. The issue of federalism has proved to be divisive and misunderstood. This book provides a critical reappraisal of the political, economic, and socio-cultural potential of current federal political-institutional arrangements. It includes both an analysis of their necessary preconditions as well as an evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages compared with other forms of state organization. The authors examine the issue at the level of the Union, the member states, and the states of Central and Eastern Europe, reflecting the increasing interdependence and interplay of these three levels: nation states in all parts of Europe influencing one another and the Union, and being influenced by it. The book concludes with an overall assessment of the federalizing processes at work in Europe, both at the Union and the nation state level, and points out the problems, paradoxes, and likely outcomes of these processes.

Author : C. Lloyd Brown-John
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal-type Solutions and European Integration written by C. Lloyd Brown-John and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, based on papers delivered at a conference in Bruges, Belgium, explores the development of European federalism. The contributors also examine the political systems of other countries such as the U.S. and Canada in order to gain insight into European integration. Some of the topics covered in the volume include recent attitudes of the German Lander towards European integration; citizenship and European union; federalism and the environment; the language problem in European integration; and the politics and administration of federalism. Contributors: Wilifred Martens, Daniel Elazar, Alain Gagnon, Michael Burgess, John Kincaid, C. Lloyd Brown-John, Stephen Schechter, Bruce McDowell, Kieran St. Clair Bradley, Joachim Jens Hesse, Ronald Watts, Nicolas Schmitt, Cheryl Saunders, Frans Vanistendael, Marcelo Duarte, Jean Beaufays, Wolfgang Renzsch, Reinhard Rack, Audrey Brassloff, Gary Miller, Jacob Landau, Alexander Murphy, Maureen Covell, Rudolf Hrbek, Karel Rimanque, and Andre Alen.

Author : Hagen Streb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supranational Integration, National Federalism and Subnational States written by Hagen Streb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415216296
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Rescue of the Nation-state written by Alan S. Milward and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and updated, this second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community book offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state and European integration.

Author : Andreas Follesdal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Federalism in the EU written by Andreas Follesdal and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What powers should small states hold in the European Union? Currently small states play important roles within the federal elements of the Union, but their future status is at stake. In a federation there are two tiers of government: a central unit and regional sub-units. Each tier enjoys final authority with regards to some functions, without reference to the preferences of the other (RIKER 1993, 509). Moreover, regional governments are represented in the central decision-making processes (KING 1993). In confederal arrangements sub-units can veto decisions, and even leave the confederation. Hence in federal procedures, both member states and directly elected representatives play political roles. To be sure, the EU may never become a full federation: territorial and functional internal sovereignty is not forthcoming (cf. SCHMITTER, this volume). Nevertheless, starting with the European Coal and Steel Community, the European institutions have had strong federal elements. Historically, in the case of Europe as in other systems of pooled sovereignty, the prominent role of states is no doubt due to the actual "social contracts" among formally equal sovereign members. As an example, consider the High Authority of the Coal and Steel Community, not strictly an intergovernmental executive but responsible to a European Common Assembly. The High Authority was also checked by the intergovernmental Council of Ministers. Introduced by the Netherlands, this feature ensured the interests of smaller states within the community (PINDER 1993). As general economic integration followed in the EEC in 1958, the executive body - the Commission - continued to enjoy broad powers, yet clearly under the control of the Council of Ministers.The Single European Act of 1985 introduced federal elements: majority voting in the Council enhanced its ability to remove market distortions, and the European Parliament gained in power. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European Union added to the central powers by increasing Community influence over currency, and by establishing the economic and monetary union (EMU) by 1999.Thus the central EU institutions enjoy supra-national powers, authorized to enact laws and regulations even contrary to the will of individual governments. State governments have given up some sovereign powers, since central decisions may override them. All the same, states retain the power to block common decisions, sometimes through requirements of unanimity, and sometimes through qualified majority voting. And the Principle of Subsidiarity confirms a commitment to the sovereignty of member states, limiting the competencies of central institutions, albeit in unspecified ways.

Author : Tanja A. Börzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008600
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States and Regions in the European Union written by Tanja A. Börzel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the impact of Europeanization on domestic politics and the relationship between states and regions.