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Does the European Union Need to Become a Community?
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Abstract Many theorists contend that for the European Union to become a viable democratic polity its citizens must develop an overarching communal identity. I take issue with this claim, arguing that the norms, motivations and perceptions that make supranational democracy possible can also emerge through pro... mehr
Many theorists contend that for the European Union to become a viable democratic polity its citizens must develop an overarching communal identity. I take issue with this claim, arguing that the norms, motivations and perceptions that make supranational democracy possible can also emerge through processes that do not presuppose shared communal identifications. These include the gradual externalization of domestic democratic norms and practices to the EU level, the incorporation of the resulting supranational democratic attachments back into existing national identifications and the build‐up of transnational political trust propelled by the practice of supranational democracy itself. Such an outcome is not inevitable, but it is conceivable in that it is theoretically coherent and has limited empirical analogies and precedents. The range of options for the EU's further democratic development is therefore broader and the chances of its success greater than many analysts assume.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
EU; europäische Identität; Legitimität; europäische Integration
Klassifikation
Europapolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2012
Seitenangabe
S. 783-800
Zeitschriftentitel
JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, 50 (2012) 5
ISSN
1468-5965
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)