LEADER 04910nam 22006255 450 001 9910338044203321 005 20200629192321.0 010 $a3-319-94415-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-94415-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000005471910 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-94415-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5485435 035 $a(PPN)259461229 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005471910 100 $a20180802d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInventing the EU as a Democratic Polity $eConcepts, Actors and Controversies /$fby Claudia Wiesner 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 309 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in European Political Sociology 311 $a3-319-94414-2 327 $aIntroduction: Inventing the EU as a democratic polity -- 1. Conceptualising representative democracy in the EU -- 2. Towards a reflexive perspective on political concepts -- 3. Studying Conceptual Change via European integration: A Research Agenda -- 4. Studying conceptual controversies in this book -- 5. Inventing the EU?but as a democratic polity or as a balance of powers? -- 6. Towards the bases of representative democracy?parliament, citizenry, and government -- 7. Who did it, when, and how? Treaty changes, law implementation, and interinstitutonal micropolitics -- 8. A dynamic perspective on the EP´s power gains: studying interinstitutional micropolitics -- 9. Inventing and shaping EU citizens -- 10. A defective supranational democracy? Government, Parliament, Head of State in the EU system -- 11. Parliamentarism and the European Parliament: potentials and limits -- 12. European Council ? Government, Parliament, President or intergovernmental assembly? -- 13. Citizenship, Democracy and demos-building in the EU -- 14. Capitalism, Democracy and the European Union -- 15. Citizenship, Social rights and democracy -- 16. Parliaments versus Executives in the financial crisis -- Conclusion: The EU as a democratic polity?. 330 $aThe EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic Europe differ considerably. The processes of inventing and building a democratic EU are marked by conceptual controversies in both public and academic debates. These are the resource for the present book, which focuses on the concepts, actors and controversies related to inventing the EU as a democratic polity. The chapters study exemplary long-term and detail cases related to inventing and institutionalizing the decisive elements of representative democracy in the EU?a parliament, citizens that vote for it in universal suffrage and governmental bodies that are linked to parliament in much the same way as government is in a parliamentary democracy. Claudia Wiesner is Professor for Political science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and adjunct Professor in Political Science at Jyväskylä University, Finland. Her main research interests lie in the comparative study of democracy, political culture and political sociology in the EU multilevel system. Wiesner´s second field of research is Public Policy, its evaluation, reform and theory. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in European Political Sociology 606 $aEuropean Union 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aCitizenship 606 $aInternational organization 606 $aEuropean Union Politics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911140 606 $aDemocracy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911050 606 $aGovernance and Government$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911220 606 $aCitizenship$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912130 606 $aInternational Organization$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912010 615 0$aEuropean Union. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aCitizenship. 615 0$aInternational organization. 615 14$aEuropean Union Politics. 615 24$aDemocracy. 615 24$aGovernance and Government. 615 24$aCitizenship. 615 24$aInternational Organization. 676 $a320.94 700 $aWiesner$b Claudia$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0865642 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910338044203321 996 $aInventing the EU as a Democratic Polity$92531064 997 $aUNINA