Democracy in Europe A Political Philosophy of the EU /

• Main Author: Innerarity, Daniel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy
• Subjects: Political theory.; European Union.; Democracy.; Political Theory.; European Union Politics.

This book calls for a philosophical consideration of the development, challenges and successes of the European Union. The author argues that conceptual innovation is essential if progress on the European project is to be made; new meanings, rather than financial or institutional engineering solution...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Understanding European Complexity
• Part 1: Legitimacy Problems in Europe
• 2. Deficit of What? A Typology of the Legitimacy Problems in the EU
• 3. Whose Deficit? The European Democracy and its Democracies
• Part 2: The Complexity of the European Democracy
• 4. What Should Be Democratised? The Peculiarity of Democracy in Europe
• 5. Who Are We? A Democracy Without Demos
• 6. On Behalf of Whom? The Multiple Representation of Europeans
• 7. What's New? The Political Innovation of the European Union
• Part 3: A Truly Common Europe
• 8. In Whose Benefit? The European Construction of the Common
• 9. How Much Social? The European Deficit of Justice
• 10. Who Decides? Transnational Self-Determination
• 11. Conclusion: What Can We Hope? The European Promises after Its Crisis.