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THIS ARTICLE DEALS WITH RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF ORGANIZATIONAL FORMATION, WHICH IS PERHAPS OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE IN THE STUDY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND TRADE UNIONS. THE AUTHORS PROPOSE THE COMBINATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY WITH APPROACHES AND METHODS FROM NATION-BUILDING AND POLITICAL STUDIES OF DEVELOPMENT IN ORDER TO INDICATE NEW LINES OF INQUIRY INTO THE PROBLEMS OF ORGANIZATIO

Taking as its starting point the major issues of democracy which are the ongoing concerns of every liberal Western political system, this volume offers a wide-ranging review of democracy in the European Union. It treats the EU as a new type of political system within the tradition of parliamentary democracies, a system which is neither federal nor intergovernmental, and which consequently has unique problems of how to handle democratic requirements. Part One deals with the two major challenges of interest articulation in the EU, political parties and lobbying. The second part discusses how dem