Today's Europe is marked by an amazing pace of integration. The European Union now consists of twenty five member states, however there is confusion and disagreement about its future design. Making The European Polity investigates how the European Union should develop and organize itself and offers a reflexive approach to integration based on the theory of communicative action. 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 and argues that it is a polity with an organized capacity to act, but no sole apex of authority. Making an important contribution to the theoretical discussions on the EU, these contributors explore a range of issues including legitimacy, post-national democracy and integration and provide in-depth analyses of social and tax policy, foreign policy, identity formation, the reform process and the constitutional effects of enlargement. This book will appeal to all political scientists and particularly to students and researchers of European Politics.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415429603
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96301977
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Country
Author
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Publication Name
Making the European Polity: Reflexive Integration in the EU
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
431g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe
Editor
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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