Essays about: "debate on democratic deficit"
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1. The European Union and its Democratic Deficit(s) : A descriptive idea-analysis
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Despite the EU’s profound commitment to uphold and promote democracy, scholars have throughout the years argued that the organization suffers from two separate, although seemingly related, democratic paradoxes and deficits: one focusing on the supranational EU-level and the Union at large, one addressing the national EU-level and the member-state components of the system. Despite the shared themes and verdicts of the EU as democratically defective – little to no attention has yet been paid to elaborate on how these debates might be connected. READ MORE
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2. Democratizing the European Union through communication: The national level perspective
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Tightly knit to the debate about a democratic deficit to the European Union (EU) is that of a communication deficit, meaning that the legitimacy a political entity gain through the communicative processes that ensure insight into politics is flawed. Ideas on how to overcome the communication deficit often revolve around transnationalizing communication between Member States or improving the communicative performance of EU institutions. READ MORE
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3. Transnational lists : An opportunity for the future?
University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In the tumultuous political climate following Brexit, a new energy has been given to the idea of establishing transnational lists for the European elections. With the ever-increasing need for democratic legitimacy on the EU stage, the system of transnational lists is viewed by many as a salvation to the problem with democratic deficit within the European Union. READ MORE
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4. Reconsidering the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’ – A deliberative perspective
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The debate on the ‘democratic deficit’ of the European Union is omnipresent at times when rapid intergovernmental and insufficiently legitimised policy decisions are taken in order to resolve the effects of the current Eurozone crisis. Taking a deliberative perspective on the question whether the EU actually suffers a ‘democratic deficit’, this thesis develops an analytical framework based on the normative cornerstones of deliberative theory. READ MORE
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5. A matter of democracy: EU soft law in the education area - A study on how Sweden relates and refers to the European Union in the policy field of higher education
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The aim of this master thesis is to shed light on some of the democratic implications of Europeanization through soft law in the education area. The central question is how the national level, in its higher education policy, relates and refers to the EU, and how this can be understood and problematized from a democratic point of view. READ MORE
