The Politics Of Legitimation In The European Union

Author : Christopher Lord,Peter Bursens,Dirk De Bièvre,Jarle Trondal,Ramses A. Wessel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000528572

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The Politics of Legitimation in the European Union by Christopher Lord,Peter Bursens,Dirk De Bièvre,Jarle Trondal,Ramses A. Wessel Pdf

This book examines and investigates the legitimacy of the European Union by acknowledging the importance of variation across actors, institutions, audiences, and context. Case studies reveal how different actors have contributed to the politics of (re)legitimating the European Union in response to multiple recent problems in European integration. The case studies look specifically at stakeholder interests, social groups, officials, judges, the media and other actors external to the Union. With this, the book develops a better understanding of how the politics of legitimating the Union are actor-dependent, context-dependent and problem-dependent. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European integration, as well as those interested in legitimacy and democracy beyond the state from a point of view of political science, political sociology and the social sciences more broadly.

Author : Claudia Sternberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137327840

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The Struggle for EU Legitimacy by Claudia Sternberg Pdf

This award-winning book answers some of the big questions on the legitimacy of the European Union. Specifically, it looks at what it would mean for the EU to be considered a legitimate body and where our ideas on this question come from. The Struggle for EU Legitimacy traces the history of constructions and contestations of the EU's legitimacy, in discourses of the European institutions and in public debate. Through an interpretive, non-quantitative textual analysis of an eclectic range of sources, it examines both long-term patterns in EU-official discourses and their reception in member-state public spheres, specifically in the German and French debates on the Maastricht and Constitutional Draft Treaties. The story told portrays the history of legitimating the EU as a continuous contest over the ends and goals of integration, as well as a balancing act—which was inescapable given the nature of the integration project—between 'bringing the people in' and 'keeping them out'. In addition, it was a balancing act between actively politicizing and deliberately de-politicizing the stakes of EU politics.

Author : Bart M. J. Szewczyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1003020062

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European Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Power by Bart M. J. Szewczyk Pdf

"This book shows how the EU's dual sovereignty-legitimacy problem can be resolved through the political concept of European citizenship, which can serve both to define the scope of European sovereignty and to justify EU power beyond national democracy. It reconceptualizes the EU's legitimacy problem and demonstrates how sources of legitimacy can be identified and give rise to European sovereignty. It argues that sovereignty should be based on the will of citizens acting through various political bodies within the EU: city halls, regional entities, national governments, and EU institutions, and develops a general theory, arguably applicable to any political order. The EU is an unprecedented political project that is in tension with traditional forms of state legitimation based on national democracy, as nationalist and populists throughout Europe often make clear. Against this backdrop, the book fully articulates the notion of European sovereignty and argues that the EU's sources of legitimacy are based on European citizenship and national democracy. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, European integration, international institutions and more broadly to international relations"--

Author : Jacques Thomassen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199548996

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The Legitimacy of the European Union After Enlargement by Jacques Thomassen Pdf

Recoge: Part 1: Political representation in the European Union - Part 2:Political support for the European Union.

Author : Ingolfur Blühdorn
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847413875

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In Search of Legitimacy by Ingolfur Blühdorn Pdf

In European societies social differentiation, value pluralism and international integration have brought about a condition of previously unknown complexity. Citizens’ expectations regarding political participation and the legitimization of government policy are rising, yet the capacities for social integration and political consensus formation may be in decline. This volume investigates how political actors and institutions in established European democracies are seeing to manage the condition of complexity and how this condition reconfigures the foundations of democratic politics. From the Contents: Legitimacy Crises, Efficiency Gaps, Democratic Deficits Efficiency versus Democracy: Conceptual Reconciliation of a Troubled Relationship? Citizens’ Expectations: Is what matters only what works? Re-engaging Citizens: Institutional Responses to Political Disengagement Informal Government Delegated Authority: Legitimizing Independent Regulatory Agencies Delegation to the EU The Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) and The European Employment Strategy Committee Governance in EU Agricultural Policy Efficiency versus Legitimacy: The Governance of Technology Does citizen involvement improve the quality, legitimacy and implementability of environmental policy? The Allocation of Health Care The Post-democratic Turn: Complexity and the Reconfiguration of Democratic Politics

Author : Michael Nentwich,Albert Weale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134690169

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Political Theory and the European Union by Michael Nentwich,Albert Weale Pdf

The contributors to this book examine the issues of constitutional choice that face the governments and citizens of today's Europe. Divided into three sections this study addresses: questions of political legitimacy and the meaning of democratic deficit in the EU; the reality of what institutional reforms and decision making processes are possible; and the rights of citizenship and values that should be protected.

Author : Hermann Schmitt,J. J. A. Thomassen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198296614

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Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union by Hermann Schmitt,J. J. A. Thomassen Pdf

How severe a problem is what may be called the democratic deficit of the European Union? This volume elaborates a conceptual framework for the empirical analysis of the alleged democratic deficit.

Author : Amelie Kutter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030330316

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Legitimation in the European Union by Amelie Kutter Pdf

This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the question of how political legitimacy is constructed in the increasingly contested postnational setting of the European Union. Drawing on the example of the controversy about the EU constitution and the use of ‘EU constitution speak’ in commentaries published by Polish and French broadsheets, it reveals the transformation that constructions of political authority and association undergo when they are being transposed from the discourse field of multilateral negotiation to that of national news media. Through an original combination of the linguistic theory of discourse developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, Bourdieu’s field theory and notion of symbolic power, and political thought on polity-building, it develops a framework for the discourse study of legitimation and Europeanisation, and proposes applications beyond the case studies in the book.To students of European integration, it demonstrates the potential these concepts have for unravelling the implicit practices of postnational polity building. Discourse researchers, on the other hand, will discover how detailed text analyses gain significance in debates related to the macro level of political organisation when guided by sociological and political theory.

Author : Bart M.J. Szewczyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000293081

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European Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Power by Bart M.J. Szewczyk Pdf

This book shows how the EU’s dual sovereignty–legitimacy problem can be resolved through the political concept of European citizenship, which can serve both to define the scope of European sovereignty and to justify EU power beyond national democracy. It reconceptualizes the EU’s legitimacy problem and demonstrates how sources of legitimacy can be identified and give rise to European sovereignty. It argues that sovereignty should be based on the will of citizens acting through various political bodies within the EU—city halls, regional entities, national governments, and EU institutions—and develops a general theory, arguably applicable to any political order. The EU is an unprecedented political project that is in tension with traditional forms of state legitimation based on national democracy, as nationalists and populists throughout Europe often make clear. Against this backdrop, the book fully articulates the notion of European sovereignty and argues that the EU’s sources of legitimacy are based on European citizenship and national democracy. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics, European integration, international institutions, and international relations.

Author : Beate Kohler-Koch,Berthold Rittberger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 0742554929

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Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union by Beate Kohler-Koch,Berthold Rittberger Pdf

Recoge: 1. Democracy. -- 2. What future for parliamentary democracy in the EU. -- 3. The public sphere and civil society: prerequisites for democratically legitimate rule making. -- 4. Democracy and political participation. -- 5. Deliberative democracy.

Author : David Beetham,Christopher Lord
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317884385

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Legitimacy and the European Union by David Beetham,Christopher Lord Pdf

Most of the contemporary debates about the European Union - about its role, its institutional arrangements, its development dynamic, its expansion and possible futures - revolve around the issue of political legitimacy. Legitimacy and the European Union addresses the fundamental issues at the heart of the debates on Europe and examines such key questions as:- -What is the scope of the EU's authority -Is there a legitimacy deficit? If so, how much does it matter -Does political legitimacy only reside in the nation state? Using a multi-dimensional conception of political legitimacy, the text analyses the character and problems of the European Union's authority in respect of democracy, political identity and governmental performance. Its distinctive claim is that political legitimacy can now only be understood as a process of interaction between the state and EU levels, and that this interaction impacts differentially on different member states.

Author : Kathleen R. McNamara
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191025525

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The Politics of Everyday Europe by Kathleen R. McNamara Pdf

How do political authorities build support for themselves and their rule? Doing so is key to accruing power, but it can be a complicated affair. The European Union, as a novel political entity, faces a particularly difficult set of challenges. The Politics of Everyday Europe argues that the legitimation of EU authority rests in part on a transformation in the symbols and practices of everyday life in Europe. The Single Market and the Euro, the legal category of European Citizen and policies promoting the free movement of people, EU public architecture, arts and popular entertainment, and EU diplomacy and foreign policy all generate symbols and practices that change peoples' day-to-day experiences naturalizing European governance.The modern nation-state has long used similar strategies of nationalism and 'imagined communities' to legitimize its political power. But the EU's cultural infrastructure is unique, as it navigates European national identities with a particularly banality, trying to make the EU seem complementary to, not in competition with, the nation-states. While this cultural legitimation has successfully underpinned the EU's surprising political development, Europe today is more often met with indifference by its citizens rather than affection. As economic and political crises have stretched European social solidarity to the breaking point, this book offers a clear theoretical framework for understanding how everyday culture matters fundamentally in the political life of the EU, and how the construction of meaning can be a potent power resource-albeit one open to contestation and subversion by the very citizens it calls into being.

Author : Thomas F. Banchoff,Mitchell P. Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415181895

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Legitimacy and the European Union by Thomas F. Banchoff,Mitchell P. Smith Pdf

Since the Maastricht ratification debate of the early 1990s, the legitimacy of the European Union has become a subject of controversy. With unprecedented force, Europeans have begun to question the need for deeper integration. Some fear threats to established national identities, while others perceive the emergence of a distant but powerful Brussels, beyond the reach of democratic control. Legitimacy and the European Union breaks with established approaches to the problem of the legitimacy of the European Union by focusing on the recent trend towards reconceptualization of the EU not as a superstate or an organization of states, but as a multi-level, contested polity without precedent. The book examines the implications of this reconceptualization for the problem of legitimacy. Individual chapters focus on policy areas, institutions and identity politics. Taken together, they reach two main conclusions. While Europeans do not strongly identify with the EU, they increasingly recognize it as a framework for politics alongside existing national and subnational structures. And while the EU lacks central democratic institutions, the integration process has spawned significant informal and pluralist forms of representation. Rethinking recognition and representation ouside the context of the nation state points to important, if little understood, actual and potential sources of EU legitimacy.

Author : Mauro Barisione,Asimina Michailidou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137598905

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Social Media and European Politics by Mauro Barisione,Asimina Michailidou Pdf

This volume investigates the role of social media in European politics in changing the focus, frames and actors of public discourse around the EU decision-making process. Throughout the collection, the contributors test the hypothesis that the internet and social media are promoting a structural transformation of European public spheres which goes well beyond previously known processes of mediatisation of EU politics. This transformation addresses more fundamental challenges in terms of changing power relations, through processes of active citizen empowerment and exertion of digitally networked counter-power by civil society, news media, and political actors, as well as rising contestation of representative legitimacy of the EU institutions. Social Media and European Politics offers a comprehensive approach to the analysis of political agency and social media in European Union politics, by bringing together scholarly works from the fields of public sphere theory, digital media, political networks, journalism studies, euroscepticism, political activism and social movements, political parties and election campaigning, public opinion and audience studies.

Author : Sonia Lucarelli,Furio Cerutti,Vivien Ann Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 9780415551007

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Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union by Sonia Lucarelli,Furio Cerutti,Vivien Ann Schmidt Pdf