A More Democratic Community

The Place of Democracy in the HIstory of European Integration

Sara Lorenzini, Umberto Tulli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-542-3 (ISBN)

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The histories of European unification and of West European democracy during the second half of the twentieth century have often been considered as separate or even antagonistic processes with the institutions of European integration being regarded as bastions of bureaucratic rule. A More Democratic Community challenges this assumption and argues that European integration benefited from the democratic accountability of member states while contributing to the validation of national democratic institutions. However, it also unveils a paradox: as integration deepened, it diminished the power of national parliaments, sparking a democratic accountability crisis within the Community.

Sara Lorenzini is Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Humanities and at the School of International Studies (SIS) of the University of Trento, where she teaches courses on International History (post-1945). Her most recent book is Global Development. A Cold War History (Princeton University Press, 2019). She was the recipient of a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration History (2018-2021).

Introduction: Reflections on the Place of Democracy in the Process of European Integration

Sara Lorenzini

Chapter 1. European Integration and Democracy: The Complexities of a Relationship

Martin Conway

Chapter 2. Governance versus Democracy: Negotiating Transnational European union during the Cold War

Wolfram Kaiser

Chapter 3. Making a Rod for its own Back: Explaining Commission Support for Increasing European Parliament Power, 1950-2000

Piers N. Ludlow

Chapter 4. Images and Sounds of the “Democratic Deficit”: the Italian mass media and European Integration in the 1950s

Gabriele D’Ottavio

Chapter 5. An Unexpected Problem? The Hague Summit and the Democratic Deficit

Umberto Tulli

Chapter 6. A Statement of the Obvious? The European Commission and the Internal Rationale of the Copenhagen Criteria

Benedetto Zaccaria

Chapter 7. The Spitzenkandidaten System and the ‘Snakes and Ladders’ of EU Parliamentary Democracy

Emanuele Massetti

Chapter 8. The Illiberal Fabric: Mapping the Geoculture of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

Stefano Bottoni

Chapter 9. A Democratic Brexit? Populism and Democracy in the United Kingdom’s Withdrawal from the European Union

Russell Foster

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Contemporary European History
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80539-542-4 / 1805395424
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-542-3 / 9781805395423
Zustand	Neuware