federalism that the EU can provide and the virtually existential fulfillment that the nation-state offers. Their reasons, as this essay will explain, vary: Some claim a “democratic deficit” at the European level, although this institutional failing might be
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Demos and Nation
Misplacing the Dilemmas of the European Union--In Memory of Stanley Hoffmann
Charles S. Maier
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Britain, Brexit and Euroscepticism
Anthropological Perspectives on Angry Politics, Technopopulism and the UK Referendum
Cris Shore
onslaught of right-wing populist nationalists. Yet as many EU analysts have argued, decisions in the EU continue to be made ‘by an elitist and technocratic organisation with a democratic deficit that binds elected governments across the continent’ ( Frost
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2021
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Laurence Piper
That democracy has won is common cause. The vast majority of states of the world today are termed ‘democratic’, a fact that stands in some contrast to the global order just some fifty years ago. Even more importantly, there is no competing alternative model of political rule, other than perhaps forms of radical Islam. Yet at the very moment of its triumph, democracy finds itself in trouble. Recent survey evidence from the United States suggests both political disengagement and a growing cynicism towards parties and elites, and similar trends are evident in Europe. Moreover, democracy faces substantial problems in the developing world, whether a tangible fragility among newly democratic states in Africa, or serious discontent at the responsiveness of government in many middle-income countries. Hence, at the very moment of hegemony we have increasing talk of democratic deficit.
Reconceptualizing Democratic Innovation
“Democratic Innovation Repertoires” and their Impact Within and Beyond Social Movements
Cristina Flesher Fominaya
democracy and focus on specific substantive issues central to their vision of democratic ideals. It is precisely this lack of being beholden to classical models and the focus on solving specific problems and democratic deficits that potentially enables the
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- 78–100 (23 total)
It Was Not Meant to Be This Way
An Unfortunate Case of Anglo-Saxon Parochialism?
Tom Frost
). Decisions were being made by an increasingly technocratic organisation with a democratic deficit that bound elected governments across the continent ( Follesdal and Hix 2006 ). Such is this democratic deficit that it has led to former Soviet dissidents
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- 53–74 (22 total)
Contending with school reform
Neoliberal restructuring, racial politics, and resistance in post-Katrina New Orleans
Mathilde Lind Gustavussen
itself, a project whose lack of popular legitimacy stems from a combination of the democratic deficits inherent in neoliberalization and, as I will show, the racialized emphasis on dispossession that has characterized post-Katrina rebuilding. The
Jan Berting
neglected to develop the democratic quality of the EU. This did lead to the important complaint of the so-called democratic deficit of the EU. We could observe that the major efforts of the political leaders were directed at the enlargement of the European
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2016
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John Keane
roots of the present-day disillusionment with the ideals and substance of democracy. Pippa Norris, who until recently saw only “trendless fluctuations” and “democratic deficits” ( 2011: 3ff ), was among several reviewers who claimed its tone was
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- 96–110 (15 total)
Protest and the Democratic Order
A Research Perspective
Danniel Gobbi, Laura Gorriahn, Daniel Staemmler, and Christian Volk
Power? Emerging Narratives of Transnational Protest .” Journal of International Political Theory 15 ( 1 ): 2 – 10 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088218808065 Norris , Pippa . 2011 . Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited . New York
Law and Liberation
Critical Notes on Agamben’s Political Messianism
Jayne Svenungsson
terms such as ‘violence’ and ‘state of exception’ rather than ‘corruption’ and ‘democratic deficit’ to describe ongoing societal developments, Agamben not only creates a problematic kind of conceptual inflation but obscures the progressive judicial
In European Judaism
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- 68–77 (10 total)