Format:
xvi, 345 Seiten
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
9781108472319
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
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:
"The European Union (EU) faces a serious crisis of democratic legitimacy. Citizens believe that the EU is run by distant and non-responsive political elites"--
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Schneider, Christina The responsive union Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108589413
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Europäische Union
;
Bürgernähe
;
Governance
DOI:
10.1017/9781108589413
