Governance vs. politics: the European Union's constitutive 'democratic deficit'

被引：17

作者：

Tsakatika, Myrto ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Athens Univ Econ & Business, DIEES, Athens 10434, Greece

来源：

JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY | 2007年 / 14卷 / 06期

关键词：

agonism; democratic deficit; European union; governance; politicization; CITIZENSHIP;

D O I：

10.1080/13501760701497840

中图分类号：

D0 [政治学、政治理论];

学科分类号：

0302 ; 030201 ;

摘要：

Governance practices fail key democratic tests coming from interest aggregation, deliberative and agonistic theories of democracy. It is argued that the European Union is best described as a complex web of governance practices and, therefore, that its 'democratic deficit' is constitutive. In contrast to what is often thought, it is not by strengthening 'good governance' practices but by treading parallel paths of constitutionalization and politicization that the European Union could eventually close the democratic gap.

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页码：867 / 885

页数：19