Democracy and the European Union
Matching means to standards
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7743716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Lord (0000-0003-1963-8541, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 668-684 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Democratization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13510340600791996 |
| OpenAlex | W2028158367 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In justifying recent European Union Treaty changes, member-state governments have claimed that publics are doubly represented in the EU: through their elected governments and through the European Parliament. This review evaluates ‘dual representation’ as a means of delivering democratic standards. It concludes that present institutional arrangements contain some means of aligning policy outcomes with citizen preferences but they do not match up so well to ‘input’ or procedural conditions for public control with political equality. One troubling aspect of this is that there are good normative grounds for holding ‘input’ standards to be prior to ‘output’ ones. Another is that difficulties of public control are, on Union matters, more acute in relationships between representatives and voters than in those between representatives and other power holders
Democracy · Economics · European union · European Union law · Law and economics · Member state · Member states · Normative · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Treaty · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2014 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |