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Richard Bellamy is Director of the Max Weber Programme at the EUI and Professor of Political Science, University College London (UCL).
Dario Castiglione is Director of the Centre for Political Thought at the University of Exeter.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From Maastricht to Brexit
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
I.The Normative Turn in EU Studies: A Republican Europe?
1.The Normative Challenge of a European Polity: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism Compared, Criticised and Combined
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
2.Normative Theory and the European Union: Legitimising the Euro-polity and its Regime
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
3.Democracy, Sovereignty and the Constitution of the European Union: The Republican Alternative to Liberalism
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
II.Rethinking Sovereignty
4.Building the Union: The Nature of Sovereignty in Europe’s Political Architecture
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
5.Sovereignty, Post-Sovereignty and Pre-Sovereignty: Reconceptualising the State, Rights and Democracy in the EU
Richard Bellamy
III.Constituting the EU
6.Constitution Making as Normal Politics: Disagreement and Compromise in the Drafting of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Constitution
Richard Bellamy and Justus Schönlau
7.Constitutional Politics in the European Union’
Dario Castiglione
8.Back to the future? The euro and the EU silent constitution building
Dario Castiglione
IV.Citizenship, Identity and Language
9.The Liberty of the Moderns: Civic and Market Freedom in the EU
Richard Bellamy
10.Political identity in a ‘community of strangers’
Dario Castiglione
11. Negotiating language regimes
Dario Castiglione
V.The Democratic Deficit
12.The Uses of Democracy: Reflections on the EU’s Democratic Deficit
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
13.Still in Deficit: Rights, Regulation and Democracy in the EU
Richard Bellamy
14.Democracy without Democracy?: Can the EU’s Democratic ‘Outputs’ be Separated from the Democratic ‘Inputs’ Provided by Competitive Parties and Majority Rule?
Richard Bellamy
15.Beyond a Constraining Dissensus: The Role of National Parliaments in Domesticating and Normalising the Politicization of European Integration
Richard Bellamy and Sandra Kröger
VI.Representing Europeans
16.Democracy by Delegation? Who Represents Whom and How in European Governance
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
17.Three Models of Democracy, Political Community and Representation in the EU
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
18.An Ever Closer Union of Peoples: Republican Intergovernmentalism, Demoi-cracy and Representation in the EU
Richard Bellamy
VII Conclusions: Confronting the Eurocrisis and Brexit
19.Political Legitimacy and European Monetary Union: Contracts, Constitutionalism and the Normative Logic of Two-Level Games
Richard Bellamy and Albert Weale
20.It’s the politics, stupid! The EU after Brexit, and its Demoi-cratic Disconnect
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione
References
Cases cited in the book
Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione have authored - together, alone and with others - many essays on European democracy which they now assemble in a rich compilation prefaced by a new essay spanning from Maastricht to Brexit. The challenges that interconnectedness poses to legitimate governance in Europe, at both national and EU level, are addressed from a republican view of politics which puts a premium on freedom as non-domination. Between the contraposed solutions offered by cosmopolitanism and communitarianism that propose, respectively, a leap forward into global governance and a retrenchment into national self-determination, Bellamy and Castiglione advance "cosmopolitan communitarianism" as a normative position that holds together a sense of responsibility vis-à-vis the citizens of other national communities and a sense of ownership of the decisions made on behalf of one's national community in a context of interdependency. It is in the balance between a new and more complex notion of sovereignty and multilevel inter-institutional checks that the idea of the republican mixed government which "removes arbitrary power from any single agent or agency" can be resurrected to yield the solution for legitimate governance in the contemporary EU. A highly readable and remarkably coherent set of essays that contribute sometimes in a conclusive manner to the many normative debates that have characterized European Union studies.
— Simona Piattoni, Professor of Political Science, University of Trento
This book has the potential to make people think afresh about the EU. Rather than trying to persuade the reader with familiar arguments of either Eurosceptics or Euroenthusiasts, the authors conceive of the EU as a paradigmatic case for “taking back control” in an interconnected world by a kind of international governance between democratic states and their peoples—demoicracy.
— Ulrich K. Preuss, Professor Emeritus of Law and Politics, Hertie School of Governance
Dario Castiglione and Richard Bellamy have managed to cover all important challenges of the current state of the European Union. Their tightly composed volume is a lucid and transparent exercise in what I would call constitutional sociology of the European Union. Legitimacy of both the "polity" and "regime" of the EU are the key reference problems. After the silent majority of compliant Europeans has been displaced by the noisy minority of populists, the gap between them and the ruling EU technocracy must be filled by a politics of building supranational democracy. The book makes us understand the magnitude of this challenge.
— Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance
The two authors are the Gold Standard when it comes to this topic.
— Glyn Morgan, Director of the Moynihan Center of European Studies, Syracuse University