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Political Theory and the European Constitution
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction Lynn Dobson and Andreas FøllesdalPart 1: Constitutionalising a multinational federation?1. 'Is federalism for Europe a solution or a problem: Tocqueville inverted, perverted or subverted?' Philippe C. Schmitter2. 'The EU as a Self-sustaining Federation: Specifying the Constitutional Conditions' David McKay, University of Essex3. 'A Union of Peoples? Diversity and the Predicaments of a Multinational Polity' Peter A. KrausPart 2: Philosophical contestations: the Convention process1. 'The Normality of Constitutional Politics: an Analysis of the Drafting of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights' Richard Bellamy and Justus Schönlau2. 'Europe united under God or not - or both?' Tore Vincents Olsen3. 'The Open Method of Co-ordination in the European Convention: an opportunity lost?' Myrto TsakatikaPart 3: The Union's values: liberty, democracy, transparency, and rights1. 'Liberty and power in the Constitution' Lynn Dobson2, 'The constitutional labelling of 'the democratic life of the EU': representative and 'participatory' democracy' Stijn Smismans3. 'Transparency and output legitimacy' Daniel Naurin4. 'An institutional dialogue on common principles. The significance of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights' Claudia Attucci5. 'Motivating Judges. Democracy, Judicial Discretion, and the European Court of Human Rights' Roberto Gargarella6. Conclusion: Andreas Føllesdal and Lynn Dobson
Biography
Lynn Dobson is Lecturer in European and International Politics at the University of Edinburgh
Andreas Follesdal is Research Professor at ARENA - Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-State - at the Research Council of Norway, and Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo.
'A much needed theoretical examination of how we understand the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.'
David J. Galbreath, Political Studies Review
