Representative Democracy in the EU by Steven Blockmans, Sophi... - 9781786613387

Representative Democracy in the EURecovering Legitimacy\nAuthor(s): Steven Blockmans, Sophia Russack\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Center for European Policy Studies\nISBN-13: 9781786613387, 978-1786613387\nSynopsis\nRepresentative democracy is beset by a crisis of legitimacy across the world, but in Europe this crisis is compounded by the inadequacy of national governments to address citizens frustrations and to achieve transnational unity on common issues. How representative are national parliaments in their decision-making on EU matters?\n\nThis volume investigates the relationship between the democratic institutions of the member states and those of the EU. With a focus on polity rather than policy, it looks at voting and decision-shaping mechanisms in selected member states, in particular the Europeanisation of representative democracy at national level. It also assesses the state of parliamentary democracy at the EU level. Exp.