Original scientific paper

Demos problems and European Union: an exersise in contextual democratic theory

David Owen ; University of Southampton, UK

Abstract

Debates concerning the ‘democratic deficit’ have been a prevalent feature of the normative literature on the European Union, but rather less attention has been paid to ‘demos problems’ constructed by the normative ordering of the EU and what such problems reveal about the nature of democratic citizenship in the EU, the character of the EU as a normative order and the institutional character of the relationship between the constitution of the EU as a normative order and as a structure of political incentives. This article addresses this topic by focusing on one such ‘demos problem’.

Keywords

demo; citizenship; European Union; political membership

Hrčak ID:

123088

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/123088

Publication date:

30.4.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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