Steven Blockmans and Sophia Russack (eds.): Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy.

Steven Blockmans and Sophia Russack (eds.): Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy.

Representative democracy is beset by a crisis of legitimacy across the world,but in Europe this crisis is compounded by the inadequacy of nationalgovernments to address citizens’ frustrations and to achieve transnationalunity on common issues. How representative are national parliaments intheir decision-making on EU matters? This volume investigates therelationship between the democratic institutions of the member states andthose of the EU. With a focus on polity rather than policy, it looks at votingand decision-shaping mechanisms in selected member states, in particularthe ‘Europeanisation’ of representative democracy at national level. It alsoassesses the state of parliamentary democracy at the EU level. Expertanalysts share their insights into the changing nature of our political eco-systems and the (dis)connections within and between them.

Horler, Vanessa

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 1 (2021); 131-137

2788-2993

2788-2985

Institute of International Relations Prague

2021-03-01

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