Democracy in the European Union: Integration Through Deliberation?

by John Erik Fossum

The European Union is widely held to suffer from a democratic deficit, and this raises a wider question: can democracy at all be applied to decision-making bodies beyond the nation state? Today, the EU is a highly complex entity undergoing profound changes. This book asks how the type of cooperation that the EU is based on can be explained; what are the integrative forces in the EU and how can integration at a supra-national level come about?
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415225922
• ISBN13: 9780415225922
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"