The evolution of democratic deficit in the European Union
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Contents
- The evolution of democratic deficit in the European Union
- Index
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- 1. The European Union Democratic Deficit
- 1.1. Democratic Deficit by analogy with National Institutions
- 1.2. Democratic deficit by analogy with Majoritarian Standards
- 1.3. Standards based on Member States legitimacy
- 1.4. Social Standards
- 2. Other dilemmas
- 2.1. Democratic Deficit and Representative Democracy
- 2.2. Dilemmas between Democracy, Monetary Policy and the ECB
- 3. Demos
- 3.1. Integration and Legitimacy
- 4. Citizenship and Nationality
- 4.1 European Union Citizenship
- 4.2. EU citizenship analysis
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter 2European theories of integration
- 1. Integration theories
- 2. Federalism
- 3. Functionalism
- 4. Transnationalism
- 5. Neofunctionalism
- 6. Intergovernmentalism
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 3European Parliament and democratic deficit
- 1. The European Parliament and the Democratic Deficit
- 2. The European Parliament: Powers and Development
- 2.1. The Treaty of Maastricht: Analysis of the European Parliament’s new Competencies
- 2.2. From Maastricht to Amsterdam
- 3. European Parliament and citizens
- 4. The European Parliament and Parties
- 4.1. Social Democrats
- 4.2. Liberal Parties
- 4.3. Christian Democrats
- 4.4. Conservatives
- 5. Minor Party Families
- 5.2. Regionalists
- 5.1. The Greens
- 5.3. Extreme Right
- 5.4. Extreme Left
- 6. European Parliament Party Groups
- 6.1. The Maastricht Treaty and the EP Parties
- 7. Transnational Party Federations
- 8. European Parliament: What implications for EU Legitimacy?
- Chapter 4European elections and democratic deficit
- 1. European Elections and the question of Democracy
- 2. European Elections: Second Order Election Model
- 3.1 3th June European Parliament Elections
- 3.1. Methodology
- 3.2. European Parliament elections: an overall picture
- 4. Member States elections to European Parliament
- 4.1. Austria
- 4.2. Belgium
- 4.3. Denmark
- 4.4. Finland
- 4.5. France
- 4.6. Germany
- 4.7. Ireland
- 4.8. Italy
- 4.9. The Netherlands
- 4.10. Portugal
- 4.11. Spain
- 4.12. Sweden
- 4.13. United Kingdom
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter 5Sub-national mobilisation in Europe and democracy
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Liberal intergovernmentalism
- 1.2. Multi-level governance: an alternative to liberal intergovernmentalism?
- 2. Explaining and describing: Multi level governance and liberal intergovernmentalism
- 2.1. MLG and liberal intergovernmentalism: conflict or jigsaw?
- 2.2. Sub-national authorities mobilisation in England and European structural funds
- 3. Local authorities in the North East of England
- 3.1. Why a case study on North East SNAs?
- 3.2. Objective 2 in the North East
- 3.3. North East SNAS lobbying in Brussels
- Chapter 6 The role of European political parties in the modified Convention on the future of European integration: Theoretical perspectives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Neofunctionalism, supranational institutionalism and political parties
- 3. Realism and its heritage: a predominance of nation-States?
- 4. European parties become an object of analysis
- 4. Towards a “Europe des partis”?
- 5. Testing competing theoretical predictions
- 6. The emergence of European parties in the work of the modified Convention
- 6.1. An empirical assessment of the conventioneers’ behaviour
- 6.2. What functions for European parties in the Convention?
- 7. The Convention method and party politics
- 7.1. What rationale behind the Convention method?
- 7.2. The Laeken Declaration and beyond: the working method and practices
- 7.3. Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence: a principal-agent model out of control?
- 7.3.2.1. Testing the ‘free rider’ hypothesis
- 7.3.2.2. Testing the representative agent hypothesis
- Conclusions Remarks
- Bibliography