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- Title
Denationalization and the Very Idea of Democratic Constitutionalism: The Case of the European Community*.
- Authors
Gerstenberg, Oliver
- Abstract
Within the current debates about Euro-constitutionalism, the conventional options are either to defend a vision of the European Union (EU) which separates global economic law from national sovereignty, and thus relies on the legitimizing powers of free markets, or to regard the legitimation problem (at least under current conditions) as beyond solution: This view argues that any further progress towards an ever closer Union would inevitably increase the legitimation deficit and that therefore the capacity for political action of the nation state should be protected or restored. This paper seeks to break the stranglehold of the, as is argued, false dichotomy (global markets vs. national democracy), and it argues that an extension of democracy beyond the nation state is possible.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; NATION-state; EUROPEAN Union
- Publication
Ratio Juris, 2001, Vol 14, Issue 3, p298
- ISSN
0952-1917
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9337.00184