Drawing from recent streams of scholarship, Democratizing Europe provides a renewed portrait of EU government that point at the enduring leading role of independent powers (the European Court, Commission and Central Bank). Vauchez suggests that we recognize this centrality and adjust our democratization strategies accordingly.

Autorentext

Antoine Vauchez is CNRS Research professor at Université Paris 1-Sorbonne. He has published extensively on expertise and politics in contemporary European democracies and the EU, notably Brokering Europe: Euro-lawyers and the Making of a Transnational Polity (2015).

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. A Potemkin Democracy? 3. The Appeal of Independence and the Making of Europe's Government 4. The Political Crisis of Europe's Independent Branch 5. Democratizing the Union 6. Conclusion