From Maastricht to Brexit - Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU
BELLAMY Richard , CASTIGLIONI Dario
Description du produit
- Catégories: Mai 2019, Brexit
- Editeur: ECPR Press
- ISBN: 9781786609922
- Date de publication: 16/04/2019
- Reliure : Broché
- Nombre de page : 336
- Langue: Anglais
Résumé
Is the European Union still a viable project? The last few years have
been difficult both economically and politically, while its integrative
function and legitimacy have been seriously tested. For many social,
economic and geo-political reasons, its expansionary moment has stopped
abruptly. On the contrary, the Greek economic crisis and the Brexit
referendum have raised the spectre of fragmentation and political
disintegration.
The promise of the EU as a possible model for legitimate governance
beyond the nation state lies somewhat in tatters. Even if the EU may
indeed survive most of its current crises, is the project of a EU as a
normative project beyond rescue? Ever since Maastricht, the democratic
legitimacy of the EU has been a key concern of policy makers, citizens
and academics alike. This issue is essentially a normative one, and over
the same period our work in this area has been at the forefront in
exploring what has come to be known (following an early working paper we
wrote with this title in 2000) ‘the normative turn in EU studies’.
The debate on the democratic form and legitimacy of the EU is one that
has gone on for some time and to which we, together with other scholars,
have tried to contribute in the course of the last twenty years or so.
Collecting articles written over the course of this period is not just
meant as the testimony of an intellectual journey, but also a way of
tracing such a journey in retrospect and mapping the important moments
of the intellectual and scholarly debates that have contributed to
shaping both our understanding and our expectations of the EU’s possible
futures.