Berthold Rittberger / Frank Schimmelfennig (eds.)

The Constitutionalization of the European Union

Herausgeber: Rittberger, Berthold; Schimmelfennig, Frank

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this volume presents a theory of constitutionalization as well as comparative analyses and case studies to underscore the claim that the European integration process itself engenders a democratic self-healing mechanism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415420891
• ISBN-10: 041542089X
• Artikelnr.: 26369346

Autorenporträt

Berthold Rittberger is Junior professor in Comparative Politics at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Explaining the Constitutionalization of the European Union 2. The
Constitutionalization of the European Union: A Qualitative Comparative
Analysis 3. Constitutionalization through Enlargement: The Contested
Origins of the EU's Democratic Identity 4. No Integration without
Representation. Parliamentary Democracy, European Integration, and the
Forgotten Communities 5. Guarding the Guards. The European Convention and
the Communitization of Police Cooperation 6. Competition and Community.
Constitutional Courts, Rhetorical Action, and the Institutionalization of
Human Rights in the European Union 7. Reasons for Constitutionalization:
Non-Discrimination, Minority Rights and Social Rights in the Convention on
the Charter of Fundamental Rights 8. Towards the Constitutionalization of
Aliens' Rights in the European Union? 9. Comment: The Constitutionalization
of the European Union from a Constructivist Perspective 10. Comment: The
Constitutionalization of the European Union from a Rationalist Perspective