The Political History of European Integration : The Hypocrisy of Democracy-Through-Market EPUB
by Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Bo Strath
Part of the Routledge Advances in European Politics series
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The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step towards a new stage of unification: towards a more federal Europe based on market integration. The authors demonstrate that European integration as a federal project actually came to an end around 1970.
The European Economic Community (EEC) - the precursor of EU - was never thought of as a democracy.
The authors locate a shift in thinking about legitimacy and further integration in the 1980s when the idea of a European democracy was connected with a plan for the internal market: the market would pave the way for democracy.
Since then, there has been a growing tension between the official line about a democratic EU and the institutional capacity to carry it through.
This tension undermined integration. The book suggests that, instead of democracy-through-market, there are signs of increasing social disintegration, political extremism and populism in the wake of economic integration. Providing a more realistic historical understanding of European integration, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, history and European studies.
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:03/06/2014
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Download - Immediately Available
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:03/06/2014
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- ISBN:9781136947131
