{"id":238010,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/the-euro-crisis-and-democratic-legitimacy-in-a-multi-level-polity"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:53:00","slug":"the-euro-crisis-and-democratic-legitimacy-in-a-multi-level-polity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-euro-crisis-and-democratic-legitimacy-in-a-multi-level-polity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Euro Crisis and Democratic Legitimacy in a Multi-Level Polity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Euro Crisis and Democratic Legitimacy in a Multi-Level Polity<br \/>\nSeminar questions:<\/p>\n<p>Does Europe suffer from a democratic deficit? If so, where does it come from? Has this become exacerbated in the aftermath of the Euro crisis?<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Thatcher\u2019s Bruges Speech, 20th September 1988:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bruges Revisited\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wkRwMFy0CVM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Required readings:<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Moravcsik (2002). In Defence of the \u2018Democratic Deficit\u2019. Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies 40 (4):603-624<\/p>\n<p>Simon Hix and Andreas Follesdal (2006). Why there is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik. Journal of Common Market Studies 44 (3): 533-562.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00fcrgen Habermas (2012). The Crisis of the European Union in the Light of a<br \/>\nConstitutionalization of International Law. The European Journal of International Law Vol. 23 no. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<\/p>\n<p>Fritz Scharpf (2013). Political Legitimacy in a Non-Optimal Currency Area. MPIfG Discussion Paper 13\/15<\/p>\n<p>Larry Siedentop. 2001. Democracy in Europe. New York: Columbia<br \/>\nUniversity Press, chap. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig. 2006. Explaining the constitutionalization of the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy 13 (8): 1148-\u00ad-1167.<\/p>\n<p>Hix, Simon. 2008. What&#8217;s Wrong With the European Union and How to Fix it. London: Polity Press.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Keohane, Stephen Macedo, and Andrew Moravcsik (2009). Democracy and Enhancing Multilateralism. International Organization 63 (1): 1-\u00ad-31.<\/p>\n<p>Philippe Schmitter (2000). How to Democratize the European Union. And Why Bother. London: Rowman &amp; Littlefield, chap. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Euro Crisis and Democratic Legitimacy in a Multi-Level Polity Seminar questions: Does Europe suffer from a democratic deficit? If so, where does it come from? Has this become exacerbated in the aftermath of the Euro crisis? Margaret Thatcher\u2019s Bruges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-euro-crisis-and-democratic-legitimacy-in-a-multi-level-polity\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}