Governance beyond the national-state, reflections on the democratic deficit of the European Union
By: DECKER, Frank
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ArticlePublisher: April 2002Subject(s): Democracia | Área de Livre Comércio | Relações Internacionais | Nacionalismo | Presidêncialismo | EuropaJournal of European Public Policy 9, 2, p. 256-272Abstract: Many suggestions for and institutional improvement of European decision-making are based on the parliamentary model of government existing in down the difficulties that will almost inevitably arise when transferring democracy from the national to the European level. Although the European Union has many features of a parliamentary federal state, it lacks a democratic foundation and substructure. The democratic problem is attributable, on the other hand, it refers to the absence of a commom European identity that would be necessary for the acceptance of an at least partially majoritarian system. As the consequences of globalization call for a continuation of the supranational integration process, democratic reform in the EU must leave its impasse and be put on a new instituional basis. Two ways of democratization are suggested here: one includes the replacement of the parliamentary model of government with a presidential one; the other is a strengthening of the integration process in those policy areas with which a state is commonly associated (public security, defence, foreign, affairs)
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Many suggestions for and institutional improvement of European decision-making are based on the parliamentary model of government existing in down the difficulties that will almost inevitably arise when transferring democracy from the national to the European level. Although the European Union has many features of a parliamentary federal state, it lacks a democratic foundation and substructure. The democratic problem is attributable, on the other hand, it refers to the absence of a commom European identity that would be necessary for the acceptance of an at least partially majoritarian system. As the consequences of globalization call for a continuation of the supranational integration process, democratic reform in the EU must leave its impasse and be put on a new instituional basis. Two ways of democratization are suggested here: one includes the replacement of the parliamentary model of government with a presidential one; the other is a strengthening of the integration process in those policy areas with which a state is commonly associated (public security, defence, foreign, affairs)
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