The Unfinished Democratization of Europe

by Erik Oddvar Eriksen

The widening and deepening of the European Union have brought to the fore the question of democracy at the European level. The system of domination already in place at the European level requires and aspires to direct legitimation--from the citizens themselves and not merely indirect, derived from the Member Nation States. Such can only be achieved by making the EU into a democratic polity.

But can democracy be disassociated from its putative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199572518
• ISBN13: 9780199572519
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"