Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-national Union: The Unsettled Political Order of Europe (Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Tables......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Introduction: Europe’s unsettled political order......Page 14
Part I: Rule of law in a context of governance......Page 34
2 Three forms of governance and three forms of power......Page 36
3 Participatory governance and European administrative law: New legal benchmarks for the new European public order......Page 57
4 Judges and lawyers beyond constitutive power......Page 74
5 Judicial governance in the European Union: The ECJ as a constitutional and a private law court......Page 98
Part II: The social deficit of the Union......Page 120
6 Can there be a European social model?......Page 122
7 Approaching the ‘Social Union’?......Page 145
8 Constitutional integration of labour constitutions......Page 165
Part III: Identity and collective memories......Page 186
9 Working through ‘bitter experiences’ towards a purified European identity?: A critique of the disregard for history in European constitutional theory and practice......Page 188
10 A ‘thick’ constitutional patriotism for the EU?: On morality, memory and militancy......Page 206
Part IV: Post-national democracy in Europe......Page 224
11 Taking democracy seriously: Europe after the failure of its constitution......Page 226
12 A done deal?: The EU’s legitimacy conundrum revisited......Page 243
Bibliography of selected CIDEL-publications......Page 266
Index......Page 270