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Subject(s)

• European federation [Browse]
• Europe—Politics and government—1989- [Browse]
• European Union [Browse]

Related name

• Eriksen, Erik Oddvar, 1955- [Browse]
• Fossum, John Erik [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies on democratizing Europe [More in this series]
• Routledge studies on democratising Europe

Summary note

"This book asks whether the EU is developing into a regulatory entity, a value-based polity or a rights-based post-national union. On the basis of in-depth analyses of social and tax policy, foreign and security policy, identity formation, the reform process and the constitutional effects of enlargement, the authors find that the Union has moved in the direction of a post-national union." "Making the European Polity sets out a reflexive approach to integration. It conceives of the EU as a law-based supranational polity lacking the identity of a people as well as the coercive means of a state. It seeks to compensate for this lack through extensive processes of deliberation. The EU is a polity with no sole apex of authority, but with an organized (limited) capacity to act. It has no sovereign demos - no people - but is involved in reflexive processes of constitutionalizing itself. It is a polity premised on a thin kind of statehood - a supranational polity with a deliberative imprint. This book will appeal to social theorists and political scientists and particularly to students of European Politics."--Jacket.

Notes

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."--T.p. verso

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-291) and index.

Contents

• Reflexive polity-building and post-national integration
• The Euro-polity in the making.

ISBN

• 0415363012 ((hardback))
• 9780415363013 ((hardback))
• 9780203013229
• 0203013220

LCCN

2004024936

OCLC

56840174

International Article Number

• 9780415363013

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