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EURR 5113

Democracy in the European Union

0.5 credit · Graduate

Survey of empirical research and normative theorizing about democracy in the EU. Topics include: European Parliament and other channels for democratic input, patterns of citizen participation, impact of European integration on democracy in EU member states, Euroscepticism, theories of EU democracy.

2026

Readings

  • (20 pages) Verdun, Achim Hurrelmann and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, eds. European Union Governance and Policy-Making: A Canadian Perspective, 2nd edition (pp. 327-348). University of Toronto Press.
  • Supplementary ▪ Beetham, David, and Christopher Lord. 1998. Legitimacy and the European literature Union. Longman.
  • Chryssochoou, Dimitris N. 1998. Democracy in the European Union. Tauris.
  • Kohler-Koch, Beate, and Berthold Rittberger, eds. 2007. Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Warleigh, Alex. 2003. Democracy and the European Union: Theory, Practice, and Reform. Sage.
  • Roederer-Rynning, Christilla. 2019. Passage to Bicameralism: Lisbon’s Ordinary Legislative Procedure at Ten. Comparative European Politics 17(6), 957-973.
  • Bressanelli, Edoardo. 2022. The Political Groups as Organisations: The Institutionalisation of Transnational Party Politics. In: Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola, eds., European Parliament’s Political
  • Groups in Turbulent Times (pp. 49-72). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Brack, Nathalie, and Awenig Marié. 2025. From Fringe to Front? Assessing the Voting Influence of the Radical Right in the European Parliament.
  • European Union Politics, 25(4), 748-771.
2023

Topics

  • course news
  • What is A. Diamond, Larry, and Leonardo Morlino (2004). "The Division in
  • st century? Democracy 15 (4):20-31 team work
  • European A. Hurrelmann (2018), “Democracy in the European Union”, 1
  • Democratic A. Moravcsik (2002), “In Defence of the ‘Democratic Deficit’: 1
  • and of Common Market Studies 40:4, 603-624. group
  • EU citizen A. Mendez, Fernando, Mario Mendez, and Vasiliki Triga 1
  • Citizen Political A. Wheatley, Jonathan, and Fernando Mendez. 2019. 1
  • Europe: A Demand-side Approach." British Journal of group
  • February Reading week
  • Citizen A. Erik Oddvar Eriksen (2005). An Emerging European 2
  • public sphere 341–363 groups

Prerequisites & course information

Also listed as PSCI 5113 .

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