The European Union is widely held to suffer from a democratic deficit, and this raises a wider question: can democracy at all be applied to decision-making bodies beyond the nation state? Today, the EU is a highly complex entity undergoing profound changes. This book asks how the type of cooperation that the EU is based on can be explained; what are the integrative forces in the EU and how can integration at a supra-national level come about? The key thinkers represented in this volume stress that in order to understand integration beyond the nation state, we need new explanatory...
The European Union is widely held to suffer from a democratic deficit, and this raises a wider question: can democracy at all be applied to decision-m...
Erik Oddvar Eriksen John Erik Fossum Agustfn Mentndez
The European Union is currently in the midst of a comprehensive process of reform and the aim of this book is to address the challenge of forging a legitimate Constitution for the EU.
The European Union is currently in the midst of a comprehensive process of reform and the aim of this book is to address the challenge of forging a le...
Today s Europe is marked by an amazing pace of integration. The European Union now consists of twenty five member states, however there is confusion and disagreement about its future design.
Making The European Polity investigates how the European Union should develop and organize itself and offers a reflexive approach to integration based on the theory of communicative action. It conceives of the EU as a law based supranational polity lacking the identity of a people as well as the coercive means of a state and argues that it is a polity with an organized capacity to act,...
Today s Europe is marked by an amazing pace of integration. The European Union now consists of twenty five member states, however there is confusio...
The European Union is often attacked for its democratic deficit, namely its deficiencies in representation, transparency and accountability, as well as its lack of popular support. Can these shortcomings be counteracted by the development of a viable European public sphere?
This book assesses the possible formation of a communicative space that might enable and engender the creation of a transnational or a supranational public. The contributors consider the EUs democratic credentials and how well it communicates, and they also evaluate the major...
The European Union is often attacked for its democratic deficit, namely its deficiencies in representation, transparency and accountability, as ...
The creation and privatization of Petro-Canada provides an important lesson in state intervention and Canadian public policy. John Erik Fossum explores the reasons for the federal government's intervention in the energy industry between 1973 and 1984 and shows how its initial objectives failed, culminating in the privatization of Petro-Canada in 1990. In other countries, state oil policy unfolded along state-industry lines of conflict. Fossum shows us how in Canada the conflict was deflected to focus on the jurisdictional and constitutional concerns of governmental actors. The dismantling...
The creation and privatization of Petro-Canada provides an important lesson in state intervention and Canadian public policy. John Erik Fossum expl...
Modern states and novel multinational polities such as the European Union have to contend with greater degrees, and more complex forms, of diversity. What elements keep complex, -post-national-, political entities together? What are the ties that bind people together in a world where they cannot rely on the safety of established national identifications (if they ever could)? This collection of essays by leading political scientists, philosophers and legal academics from Canada and Europe provides a transatlantic dialogue on the ways in which complex states (such as Canada) and non-states...
Modern states and novel multinational polities such as the European Union have to contend with greater degrees, and more complex forms, of diversity. ...
Neil D. MacCormick made outstanding contributions to the understanding of law and democracy under conditions of pluralism. His institutional theory of law has compellingly elucidated the close connection between the normative character of law as a means of social integration and legal social practices. This has contributed not only to synthetise some of the key insights of the legal theories of Kelsen, Hart and Dworkin, but has broken new ground by undermining the 'monolithic' and 'nation-state' centered character of standard legal theories, leading the new emphasis on the argumentative...
Neil D. MacCormick made outstanding contributions to the understanding of law and democracy under conditions of pluralism. His institutional theory...
This authoritative study considers all aspects of the European Union's distinctive constitution since its inception. A unique political animal, the EU has given rise to important constitutional conundrums and paradoxes that John Erik Fossum and Agustin Jose Menendez explore in detail. The authors consider the process of forging the EU's constitution and the set of fundamental norms that define the institutional structure, the decision-making procedures, and the foundations of the Union's democratic legitimacy. Their analysis illuminates the distinctive features of the EU's pluralist...
This authoritative study considers all aspects of the European Union's distinctive constitution since its inception. A unique political animal, the EU...
Parliaments risk becoming the main losers of internationalisation; a process that privileges executives and experts. Still, parliamentarians have developed a range of responses to catch up with international decision-making: they coordinate their actions with other parliamentarians; engage in international parliamentary forums; and some even opt to pursue political careers at the supranational level, such as in the European Parliament. This volume provides a thorough empirical examination of how an internationalising context drives parliamentarians to engage in inter-parliamentary...
Parliaments risk becoming the main losers of internationalisation; a process that privileges executives and experts. Still, parliamentarians have deve...
In recent decades, and in particular as a result of global climate change, the significance of the Arctic has radically shifted, from a remote periphery to a region of intensifying political and academic interest and of conflicting interests. This collection of texts examines in particular how national and international politics and law impact on Arctic governance, communications and indigenous rights; and in parallel, explores perceptions and experiences of the North in literature and the dramatic arts. The book thus offers a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue, in order to...
In recent decades, and in particular as a result of global climate change, the significance of the Arctic has radically shifted, from a remote periphe...
