Direct Democracy in the EU - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Direct Democracy in the EU write by Steven Blockmans. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Direct Democracy in the EU available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The European Union is grappling with a democracy problem. The succession of crises which have plagued the increasingly executive EU for years, has led to a rising cacophony of voices calling for fundamental change to the integration project. Yet despite the seismic shock of the Brexit referendum and the electoral upsets by nativist parties across the continent, few of the plans for EU reform include concrete proposals to reduce the age-old democratic deficit. This book is concerned with the two-pronged question of how the relationship between citizens, the state and EU institutions has changed, and how direct democratic participation can be improved in a multi-layered Union. As such, this edited volume focuses not on populism per se, nor does it deeply engage with policy and output legitimacy. Rather, the research is concerned with process and polity. Building on the notion of increasing social, economic and political interdependence across borders, this volume asks how a sense of solidarity and European identity can be rescued from the bottom up by politically empowering citizens to ‘take back control’ of their EU.
Direct Democracy in Europe
Direct Democracy in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Direct Democracy in Europe write by Zoltán Tibor Pállinger. This book was released on 2007-12-07. Direct Democracy in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick zu den Entwicklungen der Demokratie in den europäischen Ländern und zum europäischen Stand der Forschung.
Representative Democracy in the EU
Representative Democracy in the EU - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representative Democracy in the EU write by Steven Blockmans. This book was released on 2019-07-30. Representative Democracy in the EU available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Expert analysts share their insights into the changing nature of our political eco-systems and the (dis)connections within and between them. Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy is part of the ‘Towards a Citizens’ Union’ project co-funded by the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme. It is the product of collaboration with 20 renowned think tanks from the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN). This volume follows the first in the series, Direct Democracy in the EU: The Myth of a Citizens’ Union. A third and final publication will offer ideas for how democratic institutions and processes can meet the challenges facing Europe today.
Local Direct Democracy in Europe
Local Direct Democracy in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Direct Democracy in Europe write by Theo Schiller. This book was released on 2011-05-02. Local Direct Democracy in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern direct democracy has recently become an important element of political life in many countries. These developments can be observed at the national, regional, and local level of political systems. Participation and democracy in local political affairs play a major role in stabilising and developing democratic systems. This volume presents, for the first time, a broad basis of information on the wide variety of local institutions and practice of direct democracy in 19 countries. Country specialists analyse - the role of direct democracy in the institutional context and culture of national political systems, - political processes of introduction and development of initiatives and referendums, - regulations of procedures of municipal direct democracy, - practice of local direct democracy, - the contribution of local direct democracy to democratic development in general.
Handbook of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989
Handbook of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 write by Maria Marczewska-Rytko. This book was released on 2018-04-23. Handbook of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the political history of Central and Eastern Europe has been mainly the story of arise, consolidation, transformation and struggles of new democratic regimes and societies. The handbook offers an instructive approach to that history focusing on the relevance of practices and institutions of direct democracy. It collects 20 political analyses of direct democracy in 20 Central and Eastern European countries after 1989.
