Title Constituent power in the European Union / Markus Patberg

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) Series Oxford constitutional theory Oxford constitutional theory. Summary The Euro crisis, rising Euroscepticism, and Brexit have once again highlighted the European Union's unresolved legitimacy deficit. Increasingly, citizens claim to have been illegitimately excluded from decisions about the future of European integration. Movements such as DiEM25 call into question the authority of the states as the 'masters of the treaties'. At the same time, political theory's debate about the EU has become ever more academic. The discipline is preoccupied with the production and refinement of abstract models of democratic constitutionalism whose connection to real politics is thin. This book seeks to develop a new approach to EU legitimacy by reorienting the debate from the question of how the supranational polity should ideally be organized to the question of who is entitled to make that decision and how Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index Audience Specialized Notes Online resource; title from front matter (University press scholarship online, viewed on March 5, 2021) Subject European Union. SUBJECT European Union fast Subject Constituent power -- European Union countries Legitimacy of governments -- European Union countries Legitimacy of governments Constituent power Democracy Politics and government SUBJECT European Union countries -- Politics and government Subject European Union countries Form Electronic book LC no. 2020942235 ISBN 9780191880506 0191880507

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