Advocates of demoicracy dismiss the proposal to transform the EU into a supranational
democracy on the grounds that there is no pan‐European demos. This article examines …

“This handbook brings together an unprecedented number of experts in the emerging field
of critical European Union studies. Their contributions collectively provide a masterful …

How is arbitrary rule–dominance–to be avoided when political differentiation is on the rise in
the multilevel constellation that makes up the European Union? The EU is a power-wielding …

This article asks how pro-European activism relates to the idea of European citizenship. Its
ambition is to evaluate recent mobilisations in light of an activist understanding of citizenship …

There is a growing sense that if the EU is to avoid disintegration, it needs a constitutional
renewal. However, a reform negotiated between executives will hardly revitalise the …

In this article, I question the use of the notion of 'constituent power'as a tool for the
democratization of the European Union (EU). Rather than seeing the absence of a …

The constitutional politics of the European Union have been intensely debated in recent
times. One widespread perception animating the debate is that the constitutionalisation of …

The concept of constituent power plays a major part in modern political and legal theory—in
how we think about the political. This book tackles the twofold issue of public authority and …

The aim of this article is to investigate the Habermasian way of problematizing the European
political situation through consideration of the conceptual framework within which he …

This book explores how nationalism and multilateralism transform international society and
global governance. It does so by comparing the governance model of the EU–a …