Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 345 pages)
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ISBN:
9781108589413
Content:
The EU faces a serious crisis of democratic legitimacy. Citizens believe that the EU is run by distant and non-responsive political elites. The EU's perceived lack of responsiveness to ordinary citizens poses a threat to its very survival. This timely book presents a comprehensive account of how EU governments signal responsiveness to the interests of their citizens over European policies. Schneider develops and tests a theoretical framework of the intergovernmental dimension of responsive governance in the European Union, using evidence amassed over nearly ten years of multi-method research. The findings show that European cooperation in the Council of the European Union takes place in the shadow of national elections. Governments signal responsiveness to their publics by taking positions that are in the interests of politically relevant voters at the national level, defending these positions throughout negotiations in the Council, and seeking appropriate policy outcomes at the EU level
Content:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Responsive governance in the European Union; 2. The politicization of European cooperation; 3. Signals of responsiveness - a theory; 4. The EU-aware voter; 5. The EU budget: financially trivial, politically substantial; 6. Triumph and agony in the 2007-13 MFF negotiations; 7. The legislative leviathan marionette; 8. The waiting game: apres les elections, le deluge; 9. When the music stops: the German politics of the Greek; 10. The European republic; References; Index
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108472319
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108459259
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schneider, Christina The responsive union Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781108472319
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Europäische Union
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Legitimationskrise
;
Politische Beteiligung
;
Governance
DOI:
10.1017/9781108589413
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