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1 online resource (275 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in European Politics |
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Routledge advances in European politics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: the search for democratic representation in times of crisis; PART I Electoral forms of representation and the democratic crisis of the EU; 1 Compounded representation in the EU: no country for old parliaments?; 2 Party strategies towards interest groups in a Europeanized Europe; 3 The structure of EU representation and the crisis; 4 Representation in the Councils of the EU; 5 The Committee of the Regions as representative assembly: mission impossible or miracle in the making? |
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PART II Non-electoral forms of representation in multi-level representation in times of crisis6 Representation and network governance in Europe; 7 The European Commission and political representation: a new inter-institutional perspective; 8 The involvement of the constituencies of European umbrella organizations in EU affairs; 9 Democratic representation in transnational citizens' forums?; 10 Mediated representative politics: the Euro-crisis and the politicization of the EU; 11 Who is the guardian or constitutionalism in Europe after the financial crisis?; PART III Concluding essays |
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12 Representation as the cornerstone for efficient and legitimate governance13 Concluding notes: rethinking political representation in a supranational context; Index |
| Summary |
In recent years the financial and economic crisis of 2008-9 has progressed into an equally important political and democratic crisis of the EU. These troubled times have set the framework to re-assess a number of important questions in regard to representative democracy in the EU, such as the normative foundation of political representation, the institutional relationship between representatives and represented, the link between democracy and representation and new arenas and actors. This book examines the diverse avenues through which different sorts of actors have expressed their vo |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317745495 |
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1317745493 |
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