1st Edition

European Democracy as Demoi-cracy

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Whereas ‘democracy’ assumes a single demos or people, ‘ demoi -cracy’ refers to democratic government and governance in a polity constituted by separate peoples. Since the European Union consists of many demoi with different collective identities, largely separate public spheres, and a predominantly national political infrastructure, demoi -cracy is an appropriate standard for the analysis... Read more

1. Demoi-cracy in the European Union: Principles, Institutions, Policies.

Francis Cheneval, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig

2. Demoi-cratic citizenship in Europe: an impossible ideal?

Achim Hurrelmann

3. Stuck on the Rubicon? The Resonance of the Idea of Demoi-cracy in Media Debates on EU Legitimacy

Jan Pieter Beetz

4. Union Citizenship as a Demoi-cratic Institution: Increasing the EU’s Subjective Legitimacy through Supranational Citizenship?

Rebecca Welge

5. Parliamentary Co-Evolution: National Parliamentary Reactions to the Empowerment of the European Parliament

Thomas Winzen, Christilla Roederer-Rynning and Frank Schimmelfennig

6. European Union Agencies and their Management Boards: an Assessment of Accountability and Demoi-cratic Legitimacy

Michael Buess

7. Squaring the Circle with Mutual Recognition? Demoi-cratic Governance in Practice

Susanne Schmidt and Julia Sievers

8. Open Method of Coordination for Demoi-cracy? Standards and Purposes

Susana Borrás and Claudio Radaelli

9. Epilogue: The Challenge of European Demoi-cratization

Kalypso Nicolaidis

Biography

Francis Cheneval is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Sandra Lavenex is Professor of International Relations at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.