Format:
1 Online-Ressource (202 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781529219944
Content:
Clear, balanced and accessible, this book explores the alternative of a flexible European Union (EU) based on differentiated rather than uniform integration. They examine the circumstances and institutional design needed for flexibility to promote rather than undermine fairness and democracy within and between member states
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Front Cover -- Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Tables -- List of abbreviations -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Differentiated integration: an overview -- The idea of flexible Europe and demoicracy -- The normative dimension -- The views of party actors -- PART I Normative Perspectives on Differentiated Integration -- ONE Differentiated Integration as a Fair Scheme of Cooperation -- Two views of differentiated integration as a fair scheme of cooperation -- Fairness among states: a statist intergovernmental perspective -- Statist intergovernmentalism and differentiated integration -- Fairness among individuals: a supranational cosmopolitan perspective -- Supranational cosmopolitanism and differentiated integration -- Demoicracy: combining statism and cosmopolitanism? -- Fairness among states and individuals: a demoicratic perspective -- Demoicracy and differentiated integration -- Conclusion -- TWO Democracy, Domination, and Differentiated Integration -- The democratic argument for differentiated integration -- Democratic differentiation -- Conclusion -- THREE Democratic Backsliding and the Limits to Differentiated Integration -- What is democratic backsliding, and why bother? -- Constitutional pluralism and the legitimate limits of differentiated integration -- Tackling democratic backsliding: constitutional pluralism and value differentiated integration -- Conclusion -- PART II Political Party Perspectives on Differentiated Integration -- FOUR Party Views on Differentiated Integration -- Political parties, European integration, and differentiated integration -- Differentiated integration: friend or foe? -- (Cautious) supporters -- Opponents -- Conclusion
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FIVE Party Views on the Substantive Fairness of Differentiated Integration -- Assessing the substantive fairness of differentiated integration -- Is differentiated integration substantively fair? The views of political party actors -- Widening -- Deepening -- Conclusion -- SIX Party Views on the Democratic Dilemmas of Differentiated Integration -- The democratic dilemmas of differentiated integration -- How democratic is differentiated integration? What party actors think -- Creating domination? The perceived institutional impact of differentiated integration -- Mitigating domination: institutional set-up and governance structures for differentiated integration -- Conclusion -- SEVEN Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration -- Democratic backsliding and the European Union -- The European Union, differentiated integration, and democratic backsliding: the view of party actors -- The problem: is democratic backsliding a problematic issue, and why? -- Causes: does differentiated integration facilitate democratic backsliding? -- Remedies: how should democratic backsliding be addressed? -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bringing together theoretical and practitioners' perspectives -- Appendix A: List of Respondents -- Appendix B: Interview Questions -- Appendix C: Survey Questions -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bellamy, Richard Flexible Europe Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2022 ISBN 9781529219920
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Europäische Union
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Partei
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Demokratie
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Europäische Integration
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