Author | Wiesner, Claudia. author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut |
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Title | Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity [electronic resource] : Concepts, Actors and Controversies / by Claudia Wiesner |
Imprint | Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 |
Connect to | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94415-9 |
Descript | XIV, 309 p. online resource |
Introduction: Inventing the EU as a democratic polity -- 1. Conceptualising representative democracy in the EU -- 2. Towards a reflexive perspective on political concepts -- 3. Studying Conceptual Change via European integration: A Research Agenda -- 4. Studying conceptual controversies in this book -- 5. Inventing the EU—but as a democratic polity or as a balance of powers? -- 6. Towards the bases of representative democracy—parliament, citizenry, and government -- 7. Who did it, when, and how? Treaty changes, law implementation, and interinstitutonal micropolitics -- 8. A dynamic perspective on the EṔs power gains: studying interinstitutional micropolitics -- 9. Inventing and shaping EU citizens -- 10. A defective supranational democracy? Government, Parliament, Head of State in the EU system -- 11. Parliamentarism and the European Parliament: potentials and limits -- 12. European Council – Government, Parliament, President or intergovernmental assembly? -- 13. Citizenship, Democracy and demos-building in the EU -- 14. Capitalism, Democracy and the European Union -- 15. Citizenship, Social rights and democracy -- 16. Parliaments versus Executives in the financial crisis -- Conclusion: The EU as a democratic polity?