Routledge
Studies on Democratizing Europe
Edited
by: Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
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Routledge Studies on Democratizing Europe focuses on the prospects for a citizens' Europe by analysing the kind of order that is emerging in Europe. The books in the series take stock of the EU as an entity that has progressed beyond intergovernmentalism and consider how to account for this process and whether it is democratic. The emphasis is on citizenship, constitution-making, public sphere, enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and social and tax policy
1.
Erik
O. Eriksen, John Erik Fossum and Agustín J. Menéndez (eds):
Developing a Constitution for Europe
ISBN:0415321948, Publication Date: 19th March 2004
This book aims
to address the challenge of forging a legitimate constitution for the
EU and explores the questions:
• Does the EU need a constitution and, if so, what is to be constituted?
• Can such a constitution be made by a non-state entity?
• How could the constitution be made and what is the role of the
Convention on the Future of Europe?
Contributions
by: Bruce Ackerman, Hauke Brunkhorst, Carlos Closa, Erik Oddvar Eriksen,
Michelle Everson, John Erik Fossum, Dieter Grimm, Jürgen Habermas,
Christian Joerges, Massimo La Torre, Paul Magnette, Agustín José
Menéndez, Christoph Möllers and Joseph H. H. Weiler.
More on the
book here, see also publisher's
website
2.
Erik
O. Eriksen (ed.)
Making the European Polity. Reflexive integration in the EU.
ISBN: 0415363012, Publication Date: 3 June 2005
The EU has
developed beyond a mere market and is more than an international organization.
But is it becoming a state or something less or different? This book asks
whether the EU develops into a regulatory entity, a value-based polity
or a rights-based post-national union. On the basis of in-depth analyses
of social and tax policy, of foreign and security policy, of identity
formation, of the reform process and the constitutional of effects of
enlargement the authors find that the Union has moved in the direction
of a post-national union.
Contributions
by: Erik O. Eriksen, James
Bohman, Rainer
Schmalz-Bruns, Bernhard
Peters, Gerard
Delanty, John
Erik Fossum, Helene
Sjursen, Agustín
José Menéndez, Kerstin
Jacobsson and Åsa Vifell.
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3.
Helene
Sjursen (ed.)
Questioning EU Enlargement. Europe in search of identity.
ISBN: 0415376572, Publication date: July 2006
The status of the EU as a polity is unclear and ambiguous. There are different interpretations of what constitutes its core characteristics, as well as of the future direction of integration. To some, the EU is mainly a market, securing the free movement of goods and capital, and providing opportunities for economies of scale for European firms. To others it builds on a common European identity and common European values. Others again see the EU as the first step towards a democratic, supranational polity.
This book
takes a unique approach to the study of enlargement and tackles the following
questions: What
kind of understanding of the EU do the enlargement processes speak to?
Do decisions to enlarge mainly suggest that the EU is a free market, focusing
on potential economic gains? Do they indicate that there is a sense of
common European identity? Or is the focus primarily on securing respect
for democratic principles and human rights?
Offering up-to-date studies of the EU enlargement processes and country-specific
in-depth analyses, this text will be a valuable resource for students
and scholars of European Studies, International Relations and Politics.
Contributions by: Gamze Avci, Petr Drulák, Åsa Lundgren, Sonia Piedrafita, Marianne Riddervold, Børge Romsloe, Guido Schwellnus, Helene Sjursen, Susannah Verney and Marcin Zaborowski.
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4.
John
Erik Fossum and Philip Schlesinger (eds)
The
European Union and the Public Sphere
A communicative space in the making?
ISBN:
0415384567, Publication date: May 2007
This book focuses on what the prospects are for a 'citizens' Europe'. It places particular emphasis on the notion of a European public sphere; that is a communicative space that might enable and engender the fromation of a transnational or a supranational public. A viable public sphere is a central precondition for democracy because it enables widespread public debate. Analysts have consistently stressed that an important component of the European Union's democratic deficit (that is, its deficiencies in reporesentation and representativenessm transparency, accountability, and suppoprt) is the absence of a viable European public sphere. This book lays emphasis on a 'deliberative democratic' perspective, a theoretical conception of democracy particularly well suited to analyse the public sphere and how it relates to democracy. The book adresses the following questions:
- What are the prospects for a European public sphere?
- Is a uniform sphere needed, or are overlapping public spheres a more viable option?
- What do our findings tell us about the EU as a polity?
There is considerable uncertainty - and disagreement - as to the character of the EU as a political system. The book therefore assesses the prospects for a European public sphere by using different models of the EU. It covers three main themes: how to theorise communicative practices in the EU, the wotrking of general opublics and the meida, and finally the key EU institutions and their implications for the public sphere. No such assessment has been undertaken before.
Contributions by: Lars Chr. Blichner, Deirdre Curtin, Klaus Eder, Erik Oddvar Eriksen, François Foret, John Erik Fossum, Maria Heller, Ulrike Liebert, Ágnes Rényi, Philip Schlesinger, Andy Smith, Paul Statham, Abram de Swaan and Hans-Jörg Trenz.
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