The European Democratic Deficit: The Response of the Parties in the 2014 Elections

RodrĂguez-Aguilera de Prat, Cesáreo

ISBN 10: 2875743635 / ISBN 13: 9782875743633

Published by P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The European Democratic Deficit: The Response of the Parties in the 2014 Elections
• Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Ă ditions
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2875743635
• ISBN 13: 9782875743633
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU’s so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this phenomenon at the levels of institution, procedure and social legitimacy are set out and developed. With this in mind, the dysfunctions in the architecture of the institutions, the elite, complex and opaque mechanisms in decision-making and, most importantly, the growing critical estrangement of many citizens reveals that poor democratic quality of the EU constitutes its principal and most serious political problem. To empirically illustrate this debate, Rodríguez-Aguilera evaluates the positions and proposals of the parties in the six most populous countries that have addressed this issue through a comparative analysis of their political programmes.

About the Author

Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera de Prat is Professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. Author of a wide selection of works dedicated to comparative politics and political theory, his current research is centred on political parties and European integration.