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- Title
The Darling Dogma of Bourgeois Europeanists.
- Authors
Somek, Alexander
- Abstract
This review article examines critically the belief that national democracies are inherently deficient on democratic grounds since they affect people across their own borders without offering them a voice in the domestic political process. Supranational institutions are supposed to address this problem. The article explains, first, that this belief can be given two different readings: one is liberal, the other democratic. Second, it argues that making sense of this belief requires transforming it into a principle of cosmopolitan citizenship that draws on the idea of virtual representation. The current European Union would look differently if it were to abide by this principle.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union countries; DEMOCRACY; SUPRANATIONALISM; COSMOPOLITANISM -- Social aspects; EUROPEAN Union politics &; government; POLITICAL doctrines; REPRESENTATIVE government; EUROPEAN Union membership -- Social aspects; TWENTY-first century
- Publication
European Law Journal, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 5, p688
- ISSN
1351-5993
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/eulj.12098