Desiring a Democratic European Polity: The European Union Between the Constitutional Failure and the Lisbon Treaty

Priban, Jiri ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4760-6734 2012. Desiring a Democratic European Polity: The European Union Between the Constitutional Failure and the Lisbon Treaty. Blanke, Hermann-Josef and Mangiameli, Stelio, eds. The European Union After Lisbon: Constituitonal Basis, Economic Order and External Action, Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp. 71-91. (10.1007/978-3-642-19507-5_4)

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Abstract

The problem of democracy is general and the European Union (EU) is just one of its many specific contexts. During EU constitution-making, political constructivist notions of European democratic polity-building and federal statehood in waiting were frequently courted by European politicians and political scientists. At the beginning of the new millennium, the EU was engaged in the self-generating process of supranational form of constitutionalism which was expected to legally strengthen the principle of democratic legitimacy at EU level and thus justify the concept of an ‘ever-closer Union’ within the context of political and legal integration.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Law
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) K Law > K Law (General)
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
ISBN:	9783642195068
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Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 10:02
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/38809

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