Heralds of a Democratic Europe: Representation Without Politicization in the European Community, 1948–68 - Couverture rigide

Zon, Koen Van

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788216083 ISBN 13 : 9781788216081

Editeur : Agenda Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

The received wisdom in European integration history is that, long before the EU was plagued by Euroscepticism and other forms of contestation, there was a "permissive consensus" between European elites and the general public, which allowed European integration to move forward. This book looks beyond this presumed consensus, to ask how the members of European institutions themselves perceived and shaped their relations with European citizens during the early years of the European Communities.

It does so from the perspective of the people who were responsible for representing citizens at the European level: the members of the European Parliament (which represented European citizens) and the Economic and Social Committee (which represented European organised interests). The book follows the first generation of these European representatives in building their institutions during the 1950s and 1960s. It shows that the European representatives sought to democratise the Communities, within the constraints of the legal and institutional framework that was created with the European treaties. In doing so, the book argues, they created new path dependencies and reaffirmed existing ones, but hardly challenged the status quo – characterised later with concepts like the permissive consensus and the democratic deficit. The book shows, then, that the European representatives’ ambition to democratise the European Communities from within has shaped European integration in ways that are not fully appreciated and understood by historians and political scientists.

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À propos de l'auteur

Koen van Zon is a political historian who specializes in the history of European integration. He holds a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and works currently as a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Agenda Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788216083
• ISBN 13: 9781788216081
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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