Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe: Governing Change

by Moury; Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780415485265
• ISBN10: 0415485266
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book discusses the future of the European Union following the failure of the Constitutional and reform treaties, examining the transformations, dynamics and major issues facing present-day Europe.

Author Biography

Catherine Moury is Advanced Research Fellow at CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, and Guest Professor at ICHEC Business School, Brussels, Belgium. Luis de Sousa is a researcher at CIES-ISCTE. Lisbon, Portugal, and Gulbenkian Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/European University Institute, Italy.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
List of contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction: Insitutional choices in post-consitutional Europe - Facing challenges	p. 1
Institutional challenges and dynamics of the European Union	p. 15
How to govern the enlarged European Union	p. 23
The rules of change in the European Union: The lost balance between rigidity and flexibility	p. 33
Where to look for legitimacy	p. 43
Citizenship in the European polity: Questions and explorations	p. 71
Revising some 'modest proposals' for making the European Union more democratic	p. 95
The invisible transformation of codecision: Problems of democratic legitimacy	p. 108
The 'democratic principle' and the European Union: The challenge of a post-national democracy	p. 121
Conclusions: Facing the challenges	p. 133
Index	p. 141
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