The Representative Turn in EU Studies (Journal of European Public Policy Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415836026 ISBN 13: 9780415836029

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

After the participative and deliberative turns in both democratic theory and EU studies, we are currently witnessing a ‘representative turn’ to which this volume contributes by addressing the relation between representation and democracy in the EU. Although in the Lisbon Treaty the EU conceives itself as a representative democracy, the meaning of this concept in a supranational polity is far from clear – either in theory or practice. Instead, the historically contingent link between representation and democracy is today severely challenged by various processes of diversification at all levels of political action (national, regional, supranational). These processes challenge our understanding of representative democracy as involving electoral democracy within clearly delineated nation-states, provoking a situation in which ‘new frontiers’ of representation develop. Consequently, it becomes increasingly difficult to provide normative standards as well as accurate assessments of democratic representation in the EU.

This volume addresses these core challenges of representative democracy in the EU from normative, theoretical and methodological perspectives.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

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About the Author

Sandra Kröger is a lecturer in the politics department of the University of Exeter, UK.

Dawid Friedrich is based at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415836026
• ISBN 13: 9780415836029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156
• Editor: Kröger Sandra, Friedrich Dawid