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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822223203321

Titolo

Making the European polity : reflexive integration in the EU / / edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Routledge, c2005

ISBN

1-134-22950-X

1-281-15808-9

9786611158088

0-203-01322-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies on democratizing Europe ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

EriksenErik Oddvar <1955->

Disciplina

341.242/2

Soggetti

European federation

Europe Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reflexive polity-building and post-national integration -- The euro-polity in the making.

Sommario/riassunto

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, b