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Democratic Empowerment in the European Union

Democratic Empowerment in the European Union

Author: David Levi-Faur; Frans Van Waarden
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781788113557
Published In: November 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Citizenship is an ever evolving and expanding concept. European citizenship is all the more so. This book considers the role that the institutional design of the European Union plays in extending the rights of EU citizens.

With chapters from leading researchers in the field, Democratic Empowerment in the European Union outlines the core themes relating to democratic empowerment in the EU. It examines both the channels that are being made available by EU policymakers to help increase democratic participation, as well as the hindrances to, and the problems associated with, democratic empowerment. With its groundbreaking account of the ways in which EU citizens are hampered in exercising their democratic citizenship, and proposals for how they might be further empowered to do so, this book is an important addition to the literature on the subject, and offers an excellent introduction to this crucial issue.

Democratic Empowerment in the European Union will be essential reading for students of politics and both social and public policy with interests in democracy and citizenship, as well as European policymakers seeking to understand and encourage democratic engagement.

Preface and Acknowledgement

1. Democratic Empowerment in the EU: An Introduction

David Levi-Faur, Nir Kosti and Frans Van Waarden

2. Involvement of national parliaments in the political system of the European Union: a way for democratic empowerment?

Petr Kaniok

3. Political inequality and democratic empowerment in the European Union: The Role of the European Parliament

Sandra Seubert, Oliver Eberl and Daniel Gaus

4. The European Citizens Initiative from Comparative Perspective

Fernando Mendez, Roman Zwicky and Daniel Kübler

5. The European Ombudsman

Marco Inglese and Tom Binder

6. Direct democracy in the European Union: An Option for Democratic Empowerment?