The European Union: how democratic is it?

Abstract

Dilemmas, contradictions and the future of European democracy / Svein S. Andersen and Kjell A. Eliassen -- Euro-parties and European parties: new arenas, new challenges and new strategies / Mogens N. Pedersen -- EU-lobbying: between representativity and effectiveness / Svein S. Andersen and Kjell A. Eliassen -- The modern West European state and the European Union: democratic erosion or a new kind of polity? / Wolfgang Wessels -- The French EU decision-making: between destabilisation and adaptation / Christian Lequesne -- European Union policy-making and national institutions--the case of Belgium / Cecilia Andersen -- Italy: in need of more EU democracy / Federiga Maria Bindi -- The role of the Commission / Finn Laursen -- The role of the Council / Fiona Hayes-Renshaw -- Voting power under the UE constitution / Jan E. Lane, Reinert M(c)Œland and Sven Berg -- The European Parliament / Juliet Lodge -- The European Union: 1996 and beyond--a personal view from the side-line / Rolf Gustavsson -- The European Union and the erosion of parliamentary democracy: a study of post-parliamentary governance / Svein S. Andersen and Tom Burns -- Democracy: traditional concerns in new institutional settings / Svein S. Andersen and Kjell A. Eliassen