Representative Democracy in the EU
Subtitle: Recovering Legitimacy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated; Centre for European Policy Studies; Center for European Policy Studies
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781786613387
Subjects: Europe, politics and government; Representative government and representation; Democracy
Description: "Representative democracy is beset by a crisis of legitimacy across the world, but in Europe this crisis is compounded by the inadequacy of national governments to address citizens' frustrations and to achieve transnational unity on common issues. How representative are national parliaments in their decision-making on EU matters? This volume investigates the relationship between the democratic institutions of the member states and those of the EU. With a focus on polity rather than policy, it looks at voting and decision-shaping mechanisms in selected member states, in particular the 'Europeanisation' of representative democracy at national level. It also assesses the state of parliamentary democracy at the EU level"--Provided by publisher.