Dilemmas of European Democracy: New Perspectives on Democratic Politics in the European Union

by Niklas Bremberg (Editor), Ludvig Norman (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars on European politics, this collection explores how dilemmas associated with key democratic concepts can be understood in relation to the EU. The book renews our understanding of EU democracy in ways that are more attentive to the multiple fault lines and cleavages that structure this political order. It focuses on a set of democratic dilemmas inherent to EU democracy, including representation, deliberation, sovereignty, citizenship, democratic contestation and market, to provide discussions on the specific tensions and trade-offs associated to a particular concept. The book engages in the theoretical groundwork necessary for assessing and analysing the specific dilemmas that arise when translating democratic concepts into concrete institutional designs in the European setting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399511933
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2023
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Niklas Bremberg is Associate Professor in Political Science at Stockholm Universityand Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

Ludvig Norman is Associate Professor in Political Science at Stockholm Universityand Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

1. Democratic Dilemmas of Europe’s Political Order

Niklas Bremberg (Stockholm University) and Ludvig Norman (Stockholm University)

2. Representation without a Demos? A very European Democratic Dilemma

Christopher Lord (ARENA Centre for European Studies)

3. Beyond the Nation-state: Multilevel Democracy in Europe

Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen)

4. Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy in the European Union: why (not) and how (not)?

Firat Cengiz (University of Liverpool)

5. Dilemmas of EU Citizenship: the persistent Divide between Economic and Political integration

Sandra Seubert (Goethe Universityät)

6. European Capitalism without European Democracy? Democratic Dilemmas and Markets in the European Union

Kathleen R. McNamara (Georgetown University)

7. Beyond Democratic Minimalism: how Democratic Contestation can Support European Integration

Joseph Lacey (UniversityCollege Dublin)

8. Europe’s Democratic Dilemmas in Historical Perspective

Sheri Berman (Columbia University)

9. The European Union’s Main Democratic Deficits in Comparative Perspective

R. Daniel Kelemen (Rutgers University)

10. Conclusion: the Dilemmatic Perspective on European Democracy

Niklas Bremberg (Stockholm University) and Ludvig Norman (Stockholm University)