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This book seeks to answer the question 'Which institutional architecture for which kind of democracy for the EU?' by bringing two important recent debates together- the institutional analysis of the Union and its democratic assessment. The book examines a series of institutional architectures in light of the democratic quality of the processes and decisions generated by them. The discussion of these various institutional architectures is preceded by an analysis of the democratic values and principles according to which institutional architectures and governance structures should be assessed. The first part of the volume starts from key democratic principles and indicates which institutional architectures are most likely to embody them. The second part is dedicated to those institutional architectures that best describe the current state of the European Union and its likely future development, particularly given the impact of the current economic crisis. The fundamental belief that animates this volume is that it is only by paying attention to the democratic legitimacy of the Union that the process of European integration may hope to be sustainable, particularly in the face of the difficult economic crisis that the members of the Euro-area and the Union in general are experiencing.

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Author:   Simona Piattoni (Professor of Politics Science, Professor of Politics Science, University of Trento)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.654kg
ISBN:  

9780198716273

ISBN 10:   0198716273
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   16 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PART I - Introduction 1: Simona Piattoni: The European Union: Legitimating Values, Democratic Principles and Institutional Architectures PART II - Democratic Principles 2: John Erik Fossum and Johannes Pollak: Which Democratic Principles for the European Union? What Deficit? 3: Hans Agne: Popular Power in the European Union: Delegated or Alienated? 4: Ben Crum and Deirdre Curtin: The Challenge of Making European Union Executive Power Accountable 5: Stijn Smismans: Democratic Participation and the Search for a European Union Institutional Architecture that Accommodates Interests and Expertise 6: Sandra Kroeger: Democratic Representation as the Normative and Organizing Principle of the European Union PART III - Institutional Architectures 7: Kalypso Nicolaidis: Demoicratic Theory and Europe's Institutional Architecture in Times of Crisis 8: Michael Burgess: Federal Imperatives in the Institutional Evolution of the European Union 9: Sergio Fabbrini: Alternative Views: Which Institutional Architecture for a Political Union? 10: Arthur Benz: Multilevel Governance in the European Union: Loosely-Coupled Arenas of Representation, Participation and Accountability 11: Jurgen Neyer: Empowering the Sovereign: National Parliaments in European Union Monetary and Financial Policy PART IV - Conclusion 12: Simona Piattoni: European Union Institutional Architectures: Structural Tensions, Dynamic Forces and the Advantages of Hapticity

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Simona Piattoni (BA/MA Economics, Bocconi University; PhD Political Science, MIT) is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, Italy.

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