Democratic Decision-making in the EU : Technocracy in Disguise?

ISBN-13: 9780415525756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Anne Elizabeth Stie

Opis

This text examines the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) legislation and takes stock of the democratic credentials of the EU's main decision-making procedure - the ordinary legislative procedure - as it was renamed in the Lisbon Treaty.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: democracy as idea and practice  Part1: Theory, approximation and background  2. What is democratic legitimacy?  3. Approximating ideal principles to non-ideal conditions: The evaluative framework  4. Background: from co-decision to the ordinary legislative procedure  Part II: Evaluation of the ordinary legislative procedure  5. A democratic deliberative forum for the people?  6. Inclusion of affected and competent parties  7. Openness and transparency  8. Neutralisation of asymmetrical power relations  9. Decision-making capacity  10. OLP – Democratic decision-making or technocracy in disguise?

O autorze

Anne Eliabeth Stieis a postdoctoral fellow at University of Agder, Norway. She has previously worked at and is still affiliated with ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.