Whose Europe?: The Turn Towards Democracy

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of democracy. How can the European Union be made more democratic? In Whose Europe, a team of international scholars identifies barriers to further democratisation, explore potential bridges to greater democratic participation, and analyse the long term social processes shaping the new Europe.

Spis treści:
Prologue (John Rex).
The Turn Towards Democracy: Dennis Smith and Sue Wright ( Aston University).
Part I: Barriers:.
Our ′common European home′ – but who owns the house? John Markoff (University of Pittsburgh).
Language, autonomy and national identity in Catalonia: Charlotte Hoffman (University of Salford).
A community that can communicate? The linguistic factor in European integration: Sue Wright (Aston University).
Third country nationals as European citizens: the case defended: Andreas Follesdall (Oslo University).
Part II: Bridges: .
The European public sphere and the deficit of democracy: Reiner Grundmann (Aston University).
Extending ethnolinguistic democracy in Europe: the case of Wales: Stephen May (University of Bristol).
Towards a post–national polity: the emergence of the network society in Europe: Barry Axford and Richard Huggins (Oxford Brookes University).
Citizenship and human rights – particular and universal worlds and the prospects for European citizenship: David Jary (Staffordshire University).
Part III: Processes:.
Making Europe: processes of Europe–formation since 1945: Dennis Smith (Aston University).
National pride and the meaning of Europe: a comparative study of Britain and Spain: Pablo Jáuregui (European University Institute, Florence).
Democracy in Eastern Europe as a civilizing process: Harald Wydra (University of Regensurg).

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A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of democracy. How can the European Union be m ade more democratic? In Whose Europe, a team of international scholars identifies barriers to further democratisation, explore potential bridges to greater democratic participation, and analyse the long term social processes shaping the new Europe.