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050 00 $aJN30$b.C75 1995
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245 04 $aThe crisis of representation in Europe /$cedited by Jack Hayward.
260 $aPortland, Ore. ;$aLondon :$bFrank Cass,$c1995.
263 $a9507
300 $a226 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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500 $a"First appeared in a special issue on 'The Crisis of representation in Europe' of West European politics, vol. 18, no. 3 (July 1995)"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPreface /$rJack Hayward --$tEuropean Democracy and its Critique /$rJ. H. H. Weiler, Ulrich R. Haltern and Franz C. Mayer --$tPolitical Parties, Popular Legitimacy and Public Privilege /$rPeter Mair --$tThe Reshaping of National Party Systems /$rRudy Andeweg --$tThe Failure of the National Parliaments? /$rDavid Judge --$tReferendum Outcomes and Trust in Government: Public Support for Europe in the wake of Maastricht /$rMark N. Franklin, Cees van der Eijk and Michael Marsh --$tConstitutional Reform in the European Community. Are there Alternatives to the Majority Avenue? /$rRenaud Dehousse --$tDemocracy or Technocracy? European Integration and the Problem of Popular Consent /$rWilliam Wallace and Julie Smith --$tEconomic Recession and Disenchantment with Europe /$rAndrew Gamble --$tSubnational Mobilisation in the European Union /$rLiesbet Hooghe --$tAppendix. The 1994 European Elections: Twelve into One Won't Go /$rJulie Smith.
520 $aThe early 1990s have witnessed a wave of populist disaffection from representative elites, regarded as promoting an agenda of European integration that does not attach sufficient importance to their peoples' concerns. The 1994 European Elections focused public attention on this crisis and the 16 contributors to this symposium critically assess the diagnosis of the ailment and the solutions that have been canvassed to remedy its causes and consequences.
520 8 $aThey start from a fundamental interrogation about whether representative institutions within the European Union can exist without a European people and argue that this requires the separation of citizenship from any ethnic-based sense of nationhood. Political parties have become simultaneously closer to government and lost touch with their electorates, while national parties have had problems in developing a European party system.
520 8 $aRecourse to referendums as a way of providing public support for major decisions relating to the European Union demonstrate that the results reflect the popularity of the government asking the question rather than public attitudes on the issue itself.
520 8 $aThe enduring importance of national parliaments is emphasised in providing representative legitimacy as a basis of the developing European Union institutions, despite the fact that they have receded in their capacity to exercise control over their own national governments.
520 8 $aThe problems posed by pursuing European integration in a context of economic recession are discussed in terms of alternative explanations: an economic determinism that will lead to a resurgence of the intergrative impetus with the resumption of expansion or a structuralist inter-pretation in which the loss of political impetus derives mainly from the end of the Cold War and the globalisation of economic competition that remove the incentives to regional European integration.
520 8 $aThe technocratic emphasis has meant that inter-governmental bargaining has reached the limits of the practicable in an enlarged Union. This has led some to seek European integration through subnational mobilisation at the regional level, which is closer to the public in its preoccupation with day-to-day policy decisions.
520 8 $aThe current lack of public enthusiasm for European integration was reflected in the dishearteningly low turnout for the 1994 European elections, which continued to concentrate on national issues despite desultory efforts to promote transnational party campaigns. The current challenge to Europe's leaders is to persuade their peoples that what most of their representatives regard as indispensable should be implemented in the coming years.
610 20 $aEuropean Union.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007008498
651 0 $aEuropean Union countries$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103271
610 20 $aEuropean Parliament$xElections, 1994.
651 0 $aEurope$xPolitics and government$y1989-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004797
700 1 $aHayward, Jack Ernest Shalom.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50025050
730 0 $aWest European politics.
852 00 $bleh$hJN30$i.C75 1995