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'International IDEA Handbook on Democracy Assessment' by David Beetham, Sarah Bracking, Ian Kearton and Stuart Weir is reviewed.

Because they have failed to address the fundamental economic imbalances within Europe obscured by the single currency, each effort by European leaders so far to resolve the euro crisis has only deepened it. Without a decisive move toward fiscal and political union, accompanied by policies that push productivity and competitiveness toward convergence while closing the democratic deficit, the Eurozone will disintegrate.To discuss the way forward, the Nicolas Berggruen Institute's Council on the Future of Europe met in Rome on May 28 with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. In this section we publish the contributions from that meeting by the former European leaders, scholars and Nobel laureates who are members of the Council.

Konstatiert wird eine anomische Tendenz in der amerikanischen Demokratie. Dafür werden "demokratische Defizite" verantwortlich gemacht und in ihren Ursachen und Folgen untersucht. Populistisch-plebiszitäre Ansprüche rühren an das Fundament der repräsentativen amerikanischen Demokratie und stürzen das System in eine Legitimationskrise. Am Beispiel der Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) und ihrer Definition von Gesundheits-, Sicherheits- und Umweltrisiken wird aufgezeigt, zu welch paradoxen Folgen das demokratische Defizit und die Spannungen zwischen Bürgern und Experten führen können. Ein Ausweg könnte im Konzept einer "tutelary democracy" zu finden sein. (SWP-Smr)

"Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on, ♯d︢emocratic deficits, ♯ ̮reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state diverges from public expectations. Pippa Norris examines the symptoms by comparing system support in more than fifty societies worldwide, challenging the pervasive claim that most established democracies have experienced a steadily rising tide of political disaffection during the third-wave era. The book diagnoses the reasons behind the democratic deficit, including demand (rising public aspirations for democracy), information (negative news about government), and supply (the performance and structure of democratic regimes). Finally, Norris examines the consequences for active citizenship, for governance, and ultimately, for democratization. This book provides fresh insights into major issues at the heart of comparative politics, public opinion, political culture, political behavior, democratic governance, political psychology, political communications, public policymaking, comparative sociology, cross-national survey analysis, and the dynamics of the democratization process"--

An interest in unravelling the issues that concern the development of Europeanisation is recurrent in the work of the Barcelona based political scientist. In the widest sense, this book is concerned with the so-called "Democratic Deficit" in the construction of Europe. And it does this dealing with what the European state parties say regarding integration in the Old World. The starting rationale in the conception of the book is perceptive. Is the European Union facing a situation in which the principal problem is the insufficient degree of democracy? ; Peer reviewed