Sovereignty in Conflict: Political, Constitutional and Economic Dilemmas in the EU

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Contents
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1 Sovereignty in Conflict: Political, Constitutional and Economic Dilemmas in the EU
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 The Research Journey
	1.3 Sovereignty Conflicts Under Scrutiny: The Book’s Contribution
	1.4 The Causes, Manifestations and Effects of Sovereignty Conflicts in the EU
	1.5 Looking Ahead
	Notes
	References
2 Conflicting Sovereignties and the Sustainability of the Brexit State
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 From Member State to Brexit State
	2.3 Known Sovereignty Conflicts
	2.4 Potential Sovereignty Conflicts
	2.5 Resolving Sovereignty Disagreements
	2.6 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
3 Procedural Battles on Sovereignty: Interpreting the Rules in the UK House of Commons
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Brexit and the Debate on Sovereignty
	3.3 Parliamentary Procedure and Its Contentiousness
	3.4 Selecting Amendments
		3.4.1 The 2013 Queen’s Speech
		3.4.2 The 2019 Business Motion2
	3.5 Controlling the Agenda
		3.5.1 Parliament as Agenda-Setter
		3.5.2 The Use of Emergency Debates
	3.6 Conclusions: Looking Back and Ahead
	Notes
	References
4 Sovereignty and Democratic Legitimacy in Spain: The Case of Catalonia
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 A Brief History of Spain’s Catalan Problem
	4.3 The Fiasco of the New Statute of 2006–2010
	4.4 The Fiasco of the Referendum of 2017
	4.5 Dual Sovereignty? Re-Reading the Spanish Constitution
	4.6 Some Possible Comparisons
	4.7 Conclusions
	Notes
	References
5 Defending Sovereignty in the Name of Post-sovereignty: Liberal and “Illiberal” Constitutional Idioms in the EU
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Is “Illiberal” Democratic Constitutionalism Possible?
		5.2.1 From Models of Constitutional Democracy  to Constitutional Democratic Idioms
		5.2.2 A Grammar of Constitutional Democracy
	5.3 The Paradox of Post-Sovereignty in the EU
		5.3.1 Constitutional Pluralism and Constitutional Identity
		5.3.2 Exploring the Uses of Post-Sovereignty
	5.4 The Liberal Idiom: Towards European Demoi
		5.4.1 Post-Sovereignty at the ECJ
		5.4.2 Rights and the Sovereign Demoi
	5.5 The “Illiberal” Idiom: Reasserting the Ethno-National People
		5.5.1 Post-Sovereignty in Hungary and Poland
		5.5.2 The Historical Constitution and the Sovereign Ethnos
	5.6 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 The Technocratic Populist Loop: Clashes Between Parliamentary and Popular Sovereignty in EU’s Eastern and Southern Periphery
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Conflicts of Sovereignty in the EU
		6.2.1 A Decade of Mobilization: Citizens Versus Parliaments or Citizens and Parliaments United?
	6.3 Understanding the Historical Context of Sovereignty Conflicts
		6.3.1 Bypassing the Democratic Legislative
	6.4 The Greek 2015 Referendum and the Slovenian Non-Referendum
	6.5 The Bulgarian and Italian Constitutional Referenda: Better Poison Than the Cure
	6.6 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
7 Direct Democracy and the Impact of the Alternative for Germany (AfD)? “Populist” Demand for Popular Sovereignty as Latent Political Conflict
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Sovereignty, Direct Democracy and the Impact of the Far Right
	7.3 The Case of Germany
		7.3.1 High Public Demand and Limited Institutional Supply
		7.3.2 The Rise of the Far Right and Demands for More Direct Democracy
		7.3.3 The National Level: Direct Democracy as a Declining Demand in Germany’s Party System?
		7.3.4 The Subnational Level: The Centre Right as New Proponents of Direct Democracy?
	7.4 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
8 National, Popular, or Neither? Sovereignty in the Rassemblement National’s Contestation of European Integration
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 The Meanings of Sovereignty
	8.3 Defenders of European Autonomy into Guardians of National and Popular Sovereignty: The Rassemblement National’s Approach to Sovereignty in European Integration
	8.4 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
9 Left-Wing Populism and Sovereignty: An Analysis of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Discourse (2011–2022)
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Left-Wing Populism and the Multiple Dimensions of Sovereignty
	9.3 Methods and Corpus
	9.4 An Exploratory Lexicometric Analysis of the Weight of Sovereignty in Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Discourse
	9.5 Popular Sovereignty as the Backbone of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Discourse
	9.6 The Defense of Parliamentary Sovereignty Against the “Presidential Monarchy” (National Elite) and the European Union (Supranational Elite)
	9.7 The Nation-People Against Supranational Entities
		9.7.1 A Civic Definition of the Homeland
		9.7.2 Defending French Independentism  Against the UE and NATO
		9.7.3 Inter-Partisan Conflicts Around  the “National-Popular” Discourse
	9.8 Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
10 Sovereignty in Political Discourses of the European Populist Radical Right: The Right of the People and the Right of the Peoples
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 The Discursive Construction of Sovereignty: A Theoretical Framework
	10.3 Research Methodology and Data
	10.4 Right to Sovereignty in the Case of the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość
	10.5 Right to Sovereignty in the Case of the Rassemblement National
	10.6 Discussion
	10.7 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index