Political Theory And The European Constitution

Author : Lynn Dobson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134297041
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and the European Constitution written by Lynn Dobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2003, the Convention on the Future of Europe released what may become the Constitution of the European Union. This timely volume provides one of the first critical assessments of the draft Constitution from the vantage point of political theory. The work combines detailed institutional analysis with normative political theory, bringing theoretical analysis to bear on the pressing issues of institutional design answered - or bypassed - by the draft Constitution. It addresses several themes that play out differently in federal arrangements than in unitary political orders: * European values, especially the legitimate role of alleged common values * liberty and powers - how does the draft Constitution address competing normative preferences? * the European interest: the noble words regarding common European objectives and values are often muddled or conflated, different actors intending quite different things. Several chapters contribute to clarifying the different senses of these terms.

Author : Michael Nentwich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134690169
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and the European Union written by Michael Nentwich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this book examine the issues of constitutional choice that face the governments and citizens of today's Europe. Divided into three sections this study addresses: questions of political legitimacy and the meaning of democratic deficit in the EU; the reality of what institutional reforms and decision making processes are possible; and the rights of citizenship and values that should be protected.

Author : Jürgen Neyer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199587302
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Theory of the European Union written by Jürgen Neyer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate about the theory underpinning the nature, workings, and development of the European (EU) has in many ways been hampered in recent years by an intellectual divergence in the two main ways that the EU is conceptualized. On the one hand is a political science and comparative government oriented strand that sees the EU as a political system in its own right. On the other is the international relations tradition which conceptualizes it as another international organization.Alongside this, the EU itself has developed a significant constitutional dimension. Indeed, the debate surrounding the 'Constitutional Treaty' presented several challenges to our capacity to grasp the normative change of this non-state polity. Despite the eventual contestation of the EU's 'constitutionalturn' through the French and Dutch no-votes and the cumbersome procedure of ratifying the Lisbon Treaty in their aftermath, debates about the EU's constitutional quality have not ceased. In the light of these developments, the editors of this volume, along with their distinguished contributors, have attempted to create a more decisively interdisciplinary theoretical approach to studying the EU within the wider world-political context. The volume brings together scholars in a range ofdisciplines across the social sciences to offer, not a complete theory, but rather a theoretical approach combining different stands of political and legal theory. The book's aim is to inspire further engagement with the central tenets of political authority and world order, sovereignty and constitutionalchange and democracy and justice, in the context of the EU's political development.

Author : Walter van Gerven
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804767602
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Union written by Walter van Gerven and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a general introduction to the European Union (EU) as an ever closer union of states and peoples. It describes how, from its origin in 1958 as an economic community of six states, the EU has grown into a political entity of 25 states with a population of more than 450 million. It also explains the constitution-making process that is currently taking place—with a draft constitution now being submitted for ratification by the 25 member states. The book shows how the distinctive features of a democratic polity that characterize the separate EU member states are gradually replicated in the European Union and how the Union is on its way to becoming a democratic polity of its own kind. Van Gerven writes from a legal perspective, with an eye to political theory and recent American and European history, and with a diverse readership from both sides of the Atlantic in mind.

Author : Turkuler Isiksel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019875907X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe's Functional Constitution written by Turkuler Isiksel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a critical appraisal of the European Union and its legal system, this book evaluates the extent to which constitutionalism as an empirical idea and normative ideal can be adapted to institutions beyond the state.

Author : Richard Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472428646
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and the European Union written by Richard Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe in search of legitimacy : strategies of legitimation assessed / Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum -- Legitimising the Euro-"polity" and its "regime" : the normative turn in EU studies / Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione -- The new Europe : a federal state or a confederation of states? / Daniel J. Elazar -- The EU as a consociation : a methodologial assessment / Olivier Costa and Paul Magnette -- EU legitimacy revisited : the normative foundations of a multilevel polity / Nicole Bolleyer and Christine Reh -- We, the peoples of Europe? / Kalypso Nicolaidis -- Why Europe needs a constitution / Jürgen Habermas -- The idea of a European constitution / Pavlos Eleftheriadis -- The democratic costs of constitutionalisation : the European case / Dieter Grimm -- The constitutional conundrum of the European Union / Sergio Fabbrini -- Europe's "democratic deficit" : the question of standards / Giandomenico Majone -- The myth of Europe's democratic deficit / Andrew Moravcsik -- Why there is a democratic deficit in the EU : a response to -- Majone and moravcsik / Andreas Follesdal and Simon Hix -- Legitimacy in the multilevel European polity / Fritz W. Scharpf -- Beyond a constraining dissensus : the role of national parliaments in domesticating and normalising the politicization of European integration / Sandra Kröger and Richard Bellamy -- An emerging European public sphere / Erik Odvar Eriksen -- A theory of collective identity : making sense of the debate on a European identity / Klaus Eder -- Must Europe be Swiss? : on the idea of a voting space and the possibility of a multilingual demos / Joseph Lacey -- Civil society and EU democracy : "astroturf" representation? / Beate Kohler-Koch -- Whither European citizenship? : eros and civilisation revisited / C. Shore -- Why European citizenship? : normative approaches to supranational union / Rainer Baubock -- Citizenship, immigration, and the European social project : rights and -- Obligations of individuality / Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal -- Solidarity in the European Union / Andrea Sangiovanni

Author : Markus Patberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198845219
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituent Power in the European Union written by Markus Patberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to develop a new approach to EU legitimacy by reformulating the classical notion of constituent power for the context of European integration and challenging the conventional theoretical assumptions regarding the EU's ultimate source of authority.

Author : Signe Rehling Larsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198859260
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union written by Signe Rehling Larsen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book departs from the 'statist' imagination by suggesting the EU is a federal union of states, or a federation. Dedicated to the constitutional theory of federalism, this book gives the strengths and weaknesses of a federation as a political form, its histories, and current perils for the EU.

Author : Percy B. Lehning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134726708
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship, Democracy and Justice in the New Europe written by Percy B. Lehning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this study address the question of how political theory is relevant to the construction of new Europe and the tie-in issues of citizenship, social justice and political legitimacy. By using techniques of contemporary political theory, the book argues that the emergence of new Europe poses fundamental questions of value and principle and challenges more established political theories in the process.

Author : Myrto Tsakatika
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847796761
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political responsibility and the European Union written by Myrto Tsakatika and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the much neglected angle of political responsibility. It develops an original communitarian approach to legitimacy based on Alasdair MacIntyre’s ethics of virtues and practices, that can be contrasted with prevalent liberal-egalitarian and neo-republican approaches. Tsakatika argues that a ‘responsibility deficit’, quite distinct from the often discussed ‘democratic deficit’, can be diagnosed in the European Union. This is documented in chapters that provide in-depth analysis of accountability, transparency and the difficulties associated with identifying responsibility in European governance. Closing this gap requires going beyond institutional engineering. It calls for gradual convergence towards certain core social and political practices and for the flourishing of the virtues of political responsibility in Europe’s nascent political community. Throughout the book, normative political theory is brought to bear on concrete dilemmas of institutional choice faced by the EU during the recent constitutional debates. Political responsibility and the European Union will be of interest to specialists and postgraduate students of political theory, constitutional law and European Union Studies.