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• Pt. I. Re-configurations of the European polity and its constitutional constellation after the financial crisis
• section 1. Institutional defects and external effects new modes of economic governance in the shadow of Carl Schmitt
• section 2. From social welfare to economic competitiveness through social austerity?
• section 3. Political projects and the logic of the market
• pt. II. A crisis of Europe's regulatory politics the turn to executive federalism
• section 1. Whither the European 'Regulatory state'?
• section 2. Whither 'Delibrerative supranationalism'?
• pt. III. Deliberative qualities of conflict resolution beyond the EU
• pt. IV. Contextualizing conflicts-law constitutionalism.

"The debate on law, governance and constitutionalism beyond the state is confronted with new challenges. In the EU, confidence in democratic transnational governance has been shaken by the authoritarian and unsocial practices of crisis management. The ambition of this book, which builds upon many years of close co-operation between its contributors, is to promote a viable interdisciplinary alternative to these developments. "Conflicts-law constitutionalism" is a concept of transnational governance which derives democratic legitimacy from the supranational control of the external impact of national decision-making, on the one hand, and the co-operative responses to problem interdependencies on the other. The first section of the book contrasts Europe's new modes of economic governance crisis management with the conditionality of international investments, and reflects upon the communalities and differences between emergency Europe and global exceptionalism. Subsequent sections substantiate the problma̦tique of executive and technocratic rule, explore conflict constellations of prime importance in the fields of environmental and labour law, and discuss the impact and limits of liberalisation strategies. Throughout the book, European and transnational developments are compared and evaluated."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Democracy, which protects freedom and citizens' rights more than any other regime, is in crisis today. In recent years, it has become exhausted in its European center and along its periphery. Citizen trust of the European Union's democratic institutions has been fading. The EU's "normative power" - its ability to spread its norms and values to other states - and its "soft power" - its ability to attract others to its point of view - are now seen as less likely to achieve the expected goals of spreading democracy within EU countries and creating a ring of well-governed states in neighboring countries. Democracy and its institutions need to adapt to these new challenges. Respected authors and experts offer fresh and creative answers to the challenges of democracy in the European Union and its neighboring countries by offering a transatlantic perspective.
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• Democratic deficit?
• democratic deficit arguments
• institutions compared
• bureaucratic democracy
• case 1 - regulating mergers
• case 2 - regulating biotech
• democratic surplus?.
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This work provides a rigorous, comparative examination of the European Union and the federal democracies of Switzerland and the United States.
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• 1. The European Voter
• 2. Political Parties and Party Systems
• 3. Electoral Turnout
• 4. Social Structure and Party Choice
• 5. Party Identification and Party Choice
• 6. Value Orientations and Party Choice
• 7. Left-Right Orientation and Party Choice
• 8. Issue Voting
• 9. Retrospective Voting
• 10. Leadership and Voting Decision
• 11. Modernization or Polities?
• Appendix1: Parties, Elections, and Parliaments
• Appendix 2:The European Voter Database.
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This book provides a systematic comparative analysis of how and why voting behaviour has changed in Europe in recent decades. It has been widely argued that radical changes have occurred in the how and why of voting behaviour in Europe as a result of changes in the structure of society, most notably the rise in material affluence and educational attainment, and the decline in religious observance and the size of the working class. But most tests of this proposition have been undertaken on single countries. This book, however, systematically tests the validity of this proposition across various European countries. The argument that social change has altered voting behaviour has been increasingly challenged on the grounds that it takes too little account of changes in the choices that are put before voters by the parties, such as the promises and proposals that are put forward at election time. This book, therefore, also assesses the relative explanatory power of claims that voting behaviour has changed because of changes in society against claims that it responds to changes in the offerings of political parties. And it is clear from the analyses reported in this book that contrary to the claims of much of the extant literature, the latter argument appears better able to account for many of the patterns and changes in European voting behaviour, and thus the book constitutes an important challenge to much current academic orthodoxy. This is the first book to provide a systematic comparison of the long-term dynamics of the voting behaviour of individual voters across such a wide range of European countries, taking into account the dynamics of the choices put before voters by the parties and, for the first time, relating this to the way voters behave. "Comparative Politics" is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
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• Introduction. Part I. Democratic and Constitutional Theory at the Cross-Roads. I. Democracy, Legitimacy and Constitutionalism: Basic Notions. II. Statal Democratic and Constitutional Theory under the Twin Challenges of Globalisation and Multiculturalism. Part II. The Democracy Deficit and the Constitutional Deficit. I. Diagnosing the Democracy Deficit of the European Union. II. Overcoming the Standard Vision on European Constitutionalism. Part III. The Constitution of the European Union Revisited. I.What Constitution Does the European Union Have? II. The European Union as Process towards an Ever Closer Union. III. Citizenship as Supranational Demos. Part IV. Managing Unity in Diversity: The Challenge of Variability. I. Introduction: Variability as a Challenge to Democratic Constitutionalism. II. Decisional Variability: The Question of Democratic Representation. III. On Territorial Variability. Part V. European and Member State Law: Autonomous Systems in a Common Constitutional Area. I. Towards a Pluralist Understanding of the Relationship between the European and National Legal Orders. II. Fundamental Rights Protection in a Moderate Pluralist Setting. General Conclusion.
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European integration confronts us with the limits of constitutional and democratic language. The way out of this impasse will only appear through a refinement of what we consider the European Union to be as a political entity and of our concepts of democracy. In this challenging book, Professor Verhoeven offers a crystal-clear synthesis and analysis of the state of the European Union as a constitutional project. While she recognizes the continuity of this project with social contract theory and the federal ideal - and uncovers the specific aspects of democracy and constitutionalism the EU has already embraced - she shows how the terms and presuppositions of those persistent conceptual frameworks must be fundamentally revised. At the root of these necessary revisions lies the irreversible onset of multiculturalism and globalisation, twin challenges that force us to reconsider issues of sovereignty and self-governance. Professor Verhoeven does not neglect the much-debated issues at the centre of her topic. Her analysis extends to such critiques as the view of the European constitution as a Court-led process of vertical integration, the meaning of EU citizenship, variability in EU decision-making procedures, the concept of institutional balance, territorial differences in the application of EU law, the whole area of delegated rule-making and the relationship between the European and national legal orders.
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• Introduction: democratic legitimacy and international institutions - republican intergovernmentalism, cosmopolitan statism, and the demoicratic reconnection of the EU
• Part I. Cosmopolitanism, Statism and Republicanism: Democracy, Legitimacy and Sovereignty: 1. Cosmopolitism and statism: global interdependence and national self-determination
• 2. Justice, legitimacy and republicanism: non-domination and the global circumstances of legitimate politics
• 3. Sovereignty, republicanism and the democratic legitimacy of the EU
• Part II. A Republican EU of Sovereign States: Republican Intergovernmentalism, Demoicracy and Non-Domination: 4. Representing the people's of Europe: addressing the demoicratic disconnect
• 5. Union citizenship - supra- and post-national, trans-national or inter-national?
• 6 Differentiated integration and the demoicratic constitution of the EU
• Conclusion: the global trilemma, the future of the EU and Brexit.
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Combining international political theory and EU studies, Richard Bellamy provides an original account of the democratic legitimacy of international organisations. He proposes a new interpretation of the EU's democratic failings and how they might be addressed. Drawing on the republican theory of freedom as non-domination, Bellamy proposes a way to combine national popular sovereignty with the pursuit of fair and equitable relations of non-domination among states and their citizens. Applying this approach to the EU, Bellamy shows that its democratic failings lie not with the democratic deficit at the EU level but with a democratic disconnect at the member state level. Rather than shifting democratic authority to the European Parliament, this book argues that the EU needs to reconnect with the different 'demoi' of the member states by empowering national parliaments in the EU policy-making process.
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• Something Completely Different
• Postmodern : The EU as an Unanswered Question
• The Utopian Dream of World Peace
• Out of the Ashes
• The Transformation of Europe
• The Cloak of Constructive Ambiguity
• Getting it Right the Second Time
• Ecrasez l'Infame : Religion and the EU Constitution
• The Eurozone Crisis : The Politics Behind the Money
• Absolute Autonomy : The Global Ethic of Women's Rights
• The Deconstruction of Human Nature : LGBTRights
• Anti-Discrimination and Religious Freedom in a Post-Christian Europe
• Global Governance and National Sovereignty --Global Jurisdiction Despotism and the International Criminal Court
• Binding the Leviathan in Its War on Terror
• Post-Christian Europe and Religion in America
• The Price of the Euro: Unprecedented Integration or EU Breakup?
• Demographics and Islam : The Challenges for Europe's Future
• The Crisis of Democracy in Europe
• Epilogue : Will America Follow the EU into the Soft Utopia?

What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe's migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established political parties declining across the continent while protest parties rise? All this is part of the whirlwind that EU elites are reaping from their efforts to create a unified Europe without meaningful accountability to average voters. The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe is a must-read if you want to understand how the European Union got to this point and what the European project fundamentally is. This is the first book to identify the essence of the EU in a utopian vision of a supranationally governed world, an aspiration to achieve universal peace through a global legal order. The ambitions of the global governancers are unlimited. They seek to transform not just the world's political order, but the social order as well--discarding basic truths about human nature and the social importance of tradition in favor of a human rights policy defined by radical autonomy and unfettered individual choice. And the global governance ideology at the heart of the EU is inherently antidemocratic. EU true believers are not swayed by the common sense of voters, nor by reality itself. Because the global governancers aim to transfer core powers of all nations to supranational organizations, the EU is on a collision course with the United States. But the utopian ideas of global governance are taking root here too, even as the European project flames into rancor and turmoil. America and Europe are still cultural cousins; we stand or fall together. The EU can yet be reformed, and a commitment to democratic sovereignty can be renewed on both sides of the Atlantic.
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