Democracy and the European Union

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Democracy and the European Union is written by Andreas Follesdal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3540634576 (ISBN 10) and 9783540634577 (ISBN 13).

The European Union is a new subject for theories of legitimacy, posing fundamental questions to the established concepts and principles of democratic theory. General compliance and popular acceptance and respect for European law is at stake. The volume addresses the main challenges of the European Union to democratic theory. The legitimacy of such transnational institutions born by political integration has so far received some but scant attention. The mere existence of the Union proves that the sovereign state cannot remain the sole focus of normative reflection. Indeed, the very conception of sovereignty is at stake. The present volume combines political science and normative political theory to offer concepts, arguments and criteria that further these debates, addressing problems of principle.