The Case for Demoicracy in the European Union*

Cheneval, Francis; Schimmelfennig, Frank

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2012.02262.x

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“…Concibe un conjunto de estados gobernados democrá-ticamente (van Parijs, 1998;Nicolaïdis, 2012;Cheneval y Schimmelfennig, 2013). Esta perspectiva, que se utiliza principalmente para describir y legi- timar la Unión Europea, recomienda una forma de gobierno compuesta por sistemas gubernamentales responsables ante múltiples pueblos distintos (demoi).…”

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Democracia cuántica: apuntes sobre la reconsideración del territorio en la política democrática contemporánea

Keane¹

2015

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Resumen: Las crisis políticas suelen describirse como súbitos puntos de inflexión, momentos de dramatismo extremo, puntos críticos en los que todo está en juego, en los que se necesitan juicios y decisiones audaces. Sin embargo, sabemos por arqueólogos, paleontólogos, historiadores y otros expertos que la transformación y/o el derrumbe de los órdenes antiguos y su sustitución por nuevas organizaciones de poder suelen producirse con lentitud. Su ritmo es el de la larga duración, lo que significa que sus consecuencias radicales requieren tiempo para materializarse. Las rupturas que se producen lentamente son mucho más difíciles de detectar, y aún más de analizar, pero deben ser una parte central del análisis de la democracia contemporánea y de su futuro incierto, o al menos eso es lo que argumenta el proyecto de la democracia cuántica. Palabras-clave: democracia, crisis, democracia cuántica, política, territorio.Abstract: Political crises are normally described as sudden turning points, moments of gripping drama, flashpoints when everything is up for grabs, when bold judgments and decisions become necessary. But we know from archaeologists, paleontologists, historians and others that the radical transformation and/or ruination of old orders and their replacement by new power arrangements often happen slowly. Their rhythm is that of the longue durée, and that means their radical consequences take time to materialise. Slow-motion ruptures are much harder to spot, let alone to analyse, but they must be central to the analysis of contemporary democracy and its uncertain future, or so the Quantum Democracy project argues.

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Democracia cuántica: apuntes sobre la reconsideración del territorio en la política democrática contemporánea

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2015

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“…It refers to a 'Union of peoples --understood as both states and citizens -- who govern together but not as one' (Nicolaïdis 2013: 251). Therefore any assessment of the EU's democratic order must be based on the balance between, and interaction of, the political rights of individuals and those of the democratically constituted statespeoples (Cheneval and Schimmelfennig 2013). As we elaborate in this introductory article, a demoi--cratic political order establishes this balance in two dimensions: vertically in the interplay between EU--level and domestic legislative, 4 executive and juridical institutions; and horizontally in the balance between a set of common values and norms ensuring the equality of transnational rights of individuals, on the one hand, and respect for the diversity of the demoi, on the other.…”

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Demoi-cracy in the European Union: principles, institutions, policies

Cheneval¹,

Lavenex²,

Schimmelfennig³

2014

Journal of European Public Policy

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In a 'demoi--cracy', separate statespeoples enter into a political arrangement and jointly exercise political authority. Its proper domain is a polity of democratic states with hierarchical, majoritarian features of policy--making, especially in value--laden redistributive and coercive policy areas, but without a unified political community (demos). In its vertical dimension, demoi--cracy is based on the equality and interaction of citizens' and statespeoples' representatives in the making of common policies. Horizontally, it seeks to balance equal transnational rights of citizens with national policy--making autonomy. The EU belongs to the domain of demoi--cracy and has established many of its features. We argue that both vertical and horizontal demoi--cratization have been triggered by processes of supranational integration in the EU. They differ, however, in the origins and the outcomes. Vertical demoi--cratization has initially been a reaction of parliamentary institutional actors to majoritarian decision--making in regulatory policy--areas, resulting in the empowerment of the EP and the strengthening of parliamentary oversight at the national level. By contrast, horizontal demoi--cratization has been promoted by governments as an alternative to majoritarian and legally binding policy--making in core areas of statehood as well as coercive and redistributive policy--areas; it has resulted in soft, coordinative forms of policy--making, seeking to protect national autonomy. The extent to which these developments actually meet the normative standards of demoi--cracy in practice, however, is mixed.2

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“…The third section elaborates the rationale and criteria for such a Union, while the fourth section argues that the system of representation within the EU can be viewed as conforming to this model. As a result, the EU can be classified as a demoicracy more than a democracy (Nicolaidis 2003(Nicolaidis , 2013Cheneval and Schimmelfennig 2013). The fifth section insists that in the EU context the former arrangement possesses greater democratic legitimacy than the latter, a point that the sixth and concluding section illustrates with reference to the euro crisis.…”

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‘An Ever Closer Union Among the Peoples of Europe’: Republican Intergovernmentalism andDemoicratic Representation within the EU

Bellamy

2013

Journal of European Integration

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EU institutions are best conceived as representing the peoples of Europe -a contention set out in the first, introductory, section and developed over the next five sections. The second section establishes how democratic legitimacy involves governments being representative of a people and specifies the characteristics a people need to possess for such representation to be possible. Though no EU demos exists with these features, the third section shows how in an increasingly interconnected world, governments have incentives to form associations of democratic peoples via a process of republican intergovernmentalism. Such associations guard against the domination of one people by another by preserving the capacity of the associated peoples for representative democracy. They constitute a form of demoi-cracy. The fourth section describes how the EU's system of representation corresponds to such an association and facilitates mutual respect and fair terms of cooperation between the peoples of Europe. However, as the fifth section indicates, moves away from such a union of peoples towards greater political unity involve an inevitable loss of representativeness and democratic legitimacy. The sixth and concluding section argues the euro crisis results from attempting such a move. Current efforts to resolve the crisis through yet further integration compound economic with political failure by circumventing the EU's associational decision-making mechanisms. The only democratically legitimate and non-dominating solutions will be those that respect the EU's fundamentally demoi-cratic character.

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The Case for Demoicracy in the European Union*

Cited by 181 publications

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Democracia cuántica: apuntes sobre la reconsideración del territorio en la política democrática contemporánea

Democracia cuántica: apuntes sobre la reconsideración del territorio en la política democrática contemporánea

Demoi-cracy in the European Union: principles, institutions, policies

‘An Ever Closer Union Among the Peoples of Europe’: Republican Intergovernmentalism andDemoicratic Representation within the EU

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