Democratic empowerment in the European Union
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Democratic empowerment in the European Union
（Interdisciplinary perspectives on EU citizenship / series editors, Sandra Seubert ... [et al.]）
E. Elgar, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Citizenship is an ever-evolving and expanding concept. European citizenship is all the more so. This book considers the role that the institutional design of the European Union plays in extending the rights of EU citizens.
With chapters from leading researchers in the field, Democratic Empowerment in the European Union outlines the core themes relating to democratic empowerment in the EU. It examines the channels that are being made available by EU policymakers to help increase democratic participation, as well as the hindrances to, and the problems associated with, democratic empowerment. With its groundbreaking account of the ways in which EU citizens are hampered in exercising their democratic citizenship, and proposals for how they might be further empowered to do so, this book is an important addition to the literature on the subject, and offers an excellent introduction to this crucial issue.
Democratic Empowerment in the European Union will be essential reading for students of politics and both social and public policy with interests in democracy and citizenship, as well as European policymakers seeking to understand and encourage democratic engagement.
Contributors include: W. Bakker, T. Binder, R.I. Csehi, F. Cheneval, K. Dinur, O. Eberl, M. Ferrin, R. Fransen, D. Gaus, A. Gerbrandy, H. Haber, P. Kaniok, V. Koska, N. Kosti, D. Levi-Faur, S. Seubert, C. Struenck, U. Puetter, F. van Waarden, R. Zwieky
Table of Contents
Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgement
1. Democratic Empowerment in the EU: An Introduction
David Levi-Faur, Nir Kosti and Frans Van Waarden
2. Involvement of national parliaments in the political system of the European Union: a way for democratic empowerment?
Petr Kaniok
3. Political inequality and democratic empowerment in the European Union: The Role of the European Parliament
Sandra Seubert, Oliver Eberl and Daniel Gaus
4. The European Citizens Initiative from Comparative Perspective
Fernando Mendez, Roman Zwicky and Daniel Kubler
5. The European Ombudsman
Marco Inglese and Tom Binder
6. Direct democracy in the European Union: An Option for Democratic Empowerment?
Francis Cheneval and Monica Ferrin
7. Education for a Civic Culture
Wieger Bakker, Marlot van der Kolk and Viktor Koska
8. Competition Law and the EU Democratic Deficit
Anna Gerbrandy and Rutger Fransen
9. Regulation by litigation as a form of Empowerment
Christoph Struenck
10. How Financial Market Constraints and Technocratic Decision-making Impact on European Political Citizenship and Democracy?
Robert Csehi and Uwe Puetter
11. The Financialization of EU Citizenship: An Alternative to Democratic Empowerment
Hanan Haber and David Levi-Faur
12. Democratic Empowerment and the Future of the EU: Some lessons from Brexit
Keren Dinur, Nir Kosti, David Levi-Faur and Guy Mor
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
