Europe S Hidden Federalism

Author : Bojan Kovacevic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317138990

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The hidden federal features of the European Union help explain the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom that face an unfinished political community. Ideas about federalism and the reality of existing federal states cannot be sharply divided in an analysis of the EU’s multilevel political order, but so far, both scholars and major decision makers have shown interest only in the normal functioning of federal systems: ignoring the dilemma of the federation’s legitimate authority has resulted in an existential crisis for the EU which has become ever more manifest over recent years. This book employs a combination of political philosophy and political science, of federal philosophic ideas and their traces in real federal institutions, in order to achieve the task of understanding the federal features of the EU governance system. The first part of the work focuses on building an appropriate theoretical framework to explain the new meanings attached to familiar notions of democracy, legitimacy and citizenship in the context of a political community like the EU. In the second part the federal features of the EU’s political system are examined in comparison to other current and historical federal perspectives like the US, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Germany. Through an analysis of the hidden federal aspects of the EU and the links between hidden federalism and the EU’s legitimacy crisis, this book reveals the patterns that should be avoided and gives us guidelines that should be followed if the EU is to become democratic and politically united without jeopardising the state character of its members.

Author : Bojan Kovacevic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367881411

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Europe's Hidden Federalism by Bojan Kovacevic Pdf

The hidden federal features of the European Union help explain the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom that face an unfinished political community. Ideas about federalism and the reality of existing federal states cannot be sharply divided in an analysis of the EU's multilevel political order, but so far, both scholars and major decision makers have shown interest only in the normal functioning of federal systems: ignoring the dilemma of the federation's legitimate authority has resulted in an existential crisis for the EU which has become ever more manifest over recent years. This book employs a combination of political philosophy and political science, of federal philosophic ideas and their traces in real federal institutions, in order to achieve the task of understanding the federal features of the EU governance system. The first part of the work focuses on building an appropriate theoretical framework to explain the new meanings attached to familiar notions of democracy, legitimacy and citizenship in the context of a political community like the EU. In the second part the federal features of the EU's political system are examined in comparison to other current and historical federal perspectives like the US, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Germany. Through an analysis of the hidden federal aspects of the EU and the links between hidden federalism and the EU's legitimacy crisis, this book reveals the patterns that should be avoided and gives us guidelines that should be followed if the EU is to become democratic and politically united without jeopardising the state character of its members.

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134736782

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Federalism and the European Union by Michael Burgess Pdf

A revisionist interpretation of the post-war evolution of European integration and the European Union (EU), this book reappraises and reassesses conventional explanations of European integration. It adopts a federalist approach which supplements state-based arguments with federal political ideas, influences and strategies. By exploring the philosophical and historical origins of federal ideas and tracing their influence throughout the whole of the EU's evolution, the book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly debate about the nature and development of the EU. The book looks at federal ideas stretching back to the sixteenth century and demonstrates their fundamental continuity to contemporary European integration. It situates these ideas in the broad context of post-war western Europe and underlines their practical relevance in the activities of Jean Monnet and Altiero Spinelli. Post-war empirical developments are explored from a federalist perspective, revealing an enduring persistence of federal ideas which have been either ignored or overlooked in conventional interpretations. The book challenges traditional conceptions of the post-war and contemporary evolution of the EU, to reassert and reinstate federalism in theory and practice at the very core of European integration.

Author : Charlie Jeffery,Roland Sturm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135234577

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Federalism, Unification and European Integration by Charlie Jeffery,Roland Sturm Pdf

This is an assessment of how an established, federal constitutional framework can adapt to meet the challenge posed by the achievement of German unity and the deepening of european Unity.

Author : Anand Menon,Martin Schain
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199291106

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Comparative Federalism by Anand Menon,Martin Schain Pdf

Comparative federalism is an important topic, with scholarly work comparing the US & EU 'proliferating rapidly'. This volume seeks to build on & contribute to this literature, by developing a systematic comparison of the institutions, policies & developmental patterns of the European Union & the United States.

Author : Elke Cloots,Geert De Baere,Stefan Sottiaux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847319982

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Federalism in the European Union by Elke Cloots,Geert De Baere,Stefan Sottiaux Pdf

This edited volume aims to reveal the Janus-faced character of federalism in the European Union. Federalism appears in two main forms in the EU. On the one hand, numerous formerly unitary Member States have embarked on a path towards a (quasi-)federal governance structure. On the other hand, the EU itself is sometimes qualified as a federal system. Significantly, the concept of federalism has a very different, even opposite, connotation in both contexts. When associated with Member State reform, federalism is regarded as a technique for accommodating autonomy claims of sub-state nations. By contrast, when federalism is used as a label for the EU itself, it is conceived as a far-reaching way of integrating the nations of Europe. This dual appearance of federalism in the EU context is central to the structure of the book. The first collection of essays addresses the question whether the EU may be described as a federal system, and whether it can learn from existing federations. In the second set of contributions, the attention shifts to domestic federalisation processes, more particularly to the impact of these processes on EU law and vice versa.

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019809782

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Federalism and Federation in Western Europe by Michael Burgess Pdf

Argues that there is an important conceptual distinction between federalism and federation and illustrates some of the inadequacies of contemporary federal theory.

Author : Sergio Ortino,Mitja Zagar,Vojtech Mastny
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719069963

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The Changing Faces of Federalism by Sergio Ortino,Mitja Zagar,Vojtech Mastny Pdf

This book discusses the tradition and the institutions of federalism in the Eastern, Central and Western European countries and deals with many innovative issues such as multi-level-governance, network government, devolution, subsidiarity, asymmetry and functionalism. An assumption of the book is that the European enlargement and the new European constitution could result in two major evolutions in the future: one is a full federal state, the other is an institutional response to the effects of the technological innovations of our epoch.

Author : Andreas Heinemann-Grüder
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789204179

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Federalism Doomed? by Andreas Heinemann-Grüder Pdf

The conceptual uncertainty when dealing with processes of integration and disintegration in Europe is striking because traditional notions of the nation-state, constitutionalism, sovereignty, and federalism do not account for emerging realities in either Western or Eastern Europe. This volume explores the complex inter-relationship between federal arrangements and their effects on integrating multi-ethnic societies in Europe, and takes stock of current debates on the effects of federalism on integration and disintegration in Eastern and Western Europe. For the first time federalism is addressed in a pan-European context and an attempt is made to look for remedies to overcome nationalism in both East and West within a federalist institutional framework.

Author : Joachim Jens Hesse,Vincent Wright
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198279922

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Federalizing Europe? by Joachim Jens Hesse,Vincent Wright Pdf

The constitutional and institutional development of the European Union, and federalism in particular, are widely and intensively debated. The issue of federalism has proved to be divisive and misunderstood. This book provides a critical reappraisal of the political, economic, and socio-cultural potential of current federal political-institutional arrangements. It includes both an analysis of their necessary preconditions as well as an evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages compared with other forms of state organization. The authors examine the issue at the level of the Union, the member states, and the states of Central and Eastern Europe, reflecting the increasing interdependence and interplay of these three levels: nation states in all parts of Europe influencing one another and the Union, and being influenced by it. The book concludes with an overall assessment of the federalizing processes at work in Europe, both at the Union and the nation state level, and points out the problems, paradoxes, and likely outcomes of these processes.

Author : Bojan Kovacevic
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317139003

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Europe's Hidden Federalism by Bojan Kovacevic Pdf

The hidden federal features of the European Union help explain the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom that face an unfinished political community. Ideas about federalism and the reality of existing federal states cannot be sharply divided in an analysis of the EU’s multilevel political order, but so far, both scholars and major decision makers have shown interest only in the normal functioning of federal systems: ignoring the dilemma of the federation’s legitimate authority has resulted in an existential crisis for the EU which has become ever more manifest over recent years. This book employs a combination of political philosophy and political science, of federal philosophic ideas and their traces in real federal institutions, in order to achieve the task of understanding the federal features of the EU governance system. The first part of the work focuses on building an appropriate theoretical framework to explain the new meanings attached to familiar notions of democracy, legitimacy and citizenship in the context of a political community like the EU. In the second part the federal features of the EU’s political system are examined in comparison to other current and historical federal perspectives like the US, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Germany. Through an analysis of the hidden federal aspects of the EU and the links between hidden federalism and the EU’s legitimacy crisis, this book reveals the patterns that should be avoided and gives us guidelines that should be followed if the EU is to become democratic and politically united without jeopardising the state character of its members.

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415226465

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Federalism and European Union by Michael Burgess Pdf

A revisionist interpretation of the post-war evolution of European integration and the European Union (EU), this book reappraises and reassesses conventional explanations of European integration. It adopts a federalist approach which supplements state-based arguments with federal political ideas, influences and strategies. By exploring the philosophical and historical origins of federal ideas and tracing their influence throughout the whole of the EU's evolution, the book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly debate about the nature and development of the EU. The book looks at federal ideas stretching back to the sixteenth century and demonstrates their fundamental continuity to contemporary European integration. It situates these ideas in the broad context of post-war western Europe and underlines their practical relevance in the activities of Jean Monnet and Altiero Spinelli. Post-war empirical developments are explored from a federalist perspective, revealing an enduring persistence of federal ideas which have been either ignored or overlooked in conventional interpretations. The book challenges traditional conceptions of the post-war and contemporary evolution of the EU, to reassert and reinstate federalism in theory and practice at the very core of European integration.

Author : Bruno S. Frey,Reiner Eichenberger
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015047501765

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The New Democratic Federalism for Europe by Bruno S. Frey,Reiner Eichenberger Pdf

Proposes an arrangement for government to fulfil the needs of its citizens, such as a model of federalism which includes governmental units established by citizens. The authors suggest that this system should be allowed to develop in Europe to safeguard diversity and encourage decentralization.

Author : Clément Vaneecloo,Augusta Badriotti,Margherita Fornasini
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9052010447

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Fiscal Federalism in the European Union and Its Countries by Clément Vaneecloo,Augusta Badriotti,Margherita Fornasini Pdf

The book tackles a key issue for the European Union: Fiscal Federalism. It evaluates the applicability of this theoretical perspective for the EU. Conversely, it pinpoints ways in which the diversity of existing fiscal settings and organisations, both at national and European levels, can throw light on the theory. The study analyses two of the most important European policies: Cohesion Policy and the Stability and Growth Pact. It compares the episode of German Unification to the 2004 European Enlargement. It pioneers a cross-country analysis of the various national fiscal settings. Finally, it highlights the close links between the dynamics of decision-making related to the main budgetary choices and the integration process. The questions raised are crucial in the current context of economic and institutional uncertainty: How should we apprehend the Cohesion Policy, the main expression of European solidarity? How can the coordination of national fiscal policies be improved? How are European countries and their regions organised in fiscal and budgetary terms? What lessons can the EU draw from its own fiscal past and from that of its Member States? Over and above the originality of the answers provided by the authors, the book suggests that it would be difficult to take the integration process further without first clarifying what Europe can, should or wants to do.

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174200127

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Federalism and the European Union by Michael Burgess Pdf