Centripetal democracy democratic legitimacy and political identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union 1st Edition by Joseph Lacey 0192517159 9780192517159

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ISBN-13 :  9780192517159

Author:   Joseph Lacey 

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct democratic voting opportunities are emphasised on this model. There is, however, a strain of thought predominant in political theory that doubts the democratic capacities of political systems constituted by multiple public spheres. This view is referred to as the lingua franca thesis on sustainable democratic systems (LFT). Inadequate democratic institutions and acute demands to divide the political system (through devolution or secession), are predicted by this thesis. By combining an original normative democratic theory with a comparative analysis of how Belgium and Switzerland have variously managed to sustain themselves as multilingual democracies, this book identifies the main institutional features of a democratically legitimate European Union and the conditions required to bring it about. Part One presents a novel theory of democratic legitimacy and political identity formation on which subsequent analyses are based. Part Two defines the EU as a demoi-cracy and provides a thorough democratic assessment of this political system. Part Three explains why Belgium has largely succumbed to the centrifugal logic predicted by the LFT, while Switzerland apparently defies this logic. Part Four presents a model of centripetal democracy for the EU, one that would greatly reduce its democratic deficit and ensure that this political system does not succumb to the centrifugal forces expected by the LFT.

Centripetal democracy : democratic legitimacy and political identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union 1st Table of contents:

I. Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity
1. Democratic Process and Democratic Purpose
1.1 An Account of Democratic Process
1.2 Democratic Purpose and the Principles of Democratic Process
1.3 Instituting the Democratic Purpose
1.4 Navigating Democratic Theory
2. The Democratic Enactment of Representation
2.1 Representation as Fact
2.2 Representation as (Political and Democratic) Activity
2.3 Representation as (Democratic) Value
2.4 Centripetal Democracy
Conclusion to Part I
II. Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in the EU
3. A Conceptual Map of the EU
3.1 Why Demoi-cracy?
3.2 Demoi-cracy and the Meaning of Demos
3.3 Demoi-cracy: A Dual Compound Regime of Deep Diversity
3.4 The Demoi–Demos Relationship
4. A Democratic Assessment of European Demoi-cracy
4.1 The Impossibility, Undesirability, and Satisfactory Nature of European Democracy
4.2 Statespeoples’ Control in the EU
4.3 Citizens’ Control in the EU
4.4 The Public Sphere and the Role of Civil Society
4.5 The Democratic Deficit in Summary
Conclusion to Part II
III. Testing the Lingua Franca Thesis: Belgium and Switzerland Compared
5. Belgium Versus the Lingua Franca Thesis
5.1 Political Community Formation in Belgium
5.3 Democracy in Belgium
5.4 The LINGUA FRANCA THESIS Confirmed?
6. Switzerland Versus the Lingua Franca Thesis
6.1 Founding the Federal Confederation
6.2 Mono-national Switzerland and Competition in a Consensus Democracy
6.3 Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in the Land of Popular Votes
6.4 The LINGUA FRANCA THESIS Defeated?
Conclusion to Part III
Factors Related to the Political Community
Factors Related to the Regime
IV. Implications for Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in the EU
7. Modelling Centripetal Democracy for the EU
7.1 A Realistic Demoi-cratic Ideal
7.2 A New Representative Politics and the Maturation of the European Public Sphere
7.3 The Prospects: Democratic Legitimacy and the LINGUA FRANCA THESIS
7.4 Are There Alternatives?

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