TY - BOOK ID - 77877512 TI - The European Union, how democratic is it? AU - Andersen, Svein S AU - Eliassen, Kjell A PY - 1996 SN - 144627943X 1282262777 1849207127 9781849207126 9781446279434 0761951121 9780761951124 076195113X 9780761951131 PB - London Thousand Oaks, CA Sage DB - UniCat KW - Democracy KW - Democracy. KW - European Union countries. KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - European Union. KW - E.U. KW - European Union countries KW - Europe KW - Politics and government. KW - Politics and government KW - Political sociology KW - Political systems KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - European law KW - European Union KW - Démocratie KW - Pays de l'Union européenne KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Union européenne UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77877512 AB - 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. ER -