Learning from the EU Constitutional Treaty : Democratic Constitutionalization beyond the Nation-State

ISBN-13: 9780415681872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Ben Crum

Opis

This book presents an evaluation of the present EU Treaty of Lisbon in comparison with the original EU Constitutional Treaty, and analyses the importance of consent of the people, asking if saving the treaty came at the cost of democracy.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Avoiding Democratic Constitutionalization in the European Union  2. Democratic Constitutionalisation beyond the Nation-State: A Normative Theory  3. Competing Visions of the Future of the European Union  4. The European Convention as a Forum of Supranational Constitution-Making  5. A Constitutional Treaty for a Union of Citizens and States  6. The External Accountability of the European Convention  7. Bringing the Constitutional Treaty back to the Peoples  8. The Treaty of Lisbon: Saving the Treaty at the Cost of Democracy  9. Conclusions and Prospects

O autorze

Ben Crum is Associate Professor in Political Theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.