Privatizing Democracy: Global Ideals, European Politics and Basque Territories

ISBN-13: 9783034322614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 270 str.

Jule Goikoetxea

Opis

This book argues that postnational and postsovereign multi-level governance regimes, including the EU, are mechanisms of global capitalism aimed at privatizing democracy. Through detailed analysis of the Basque case, it illustrates how democratization is closely linked to territory, collective empowerment and institutional political capacity.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Introduction: Privatizing democracy - Global capitalism, democracy and the European Union - Democratization - Territory, political economy and the nation-state - Basque territories: Federation, nation and self-determination - Basque democratization.

O autorze

Jule Goikoetxea is a member of the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College and the International Gender Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She was previously the academic director of the Master's in Governance and Political Studies at the University of the Basque Country, where she was appointed a professor of political theory. She is also a columnist and a regular contributor to national media.