PSCI 5113
Democracy in the European Union
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.
Topics
- 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
Course catalogue
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.
Prerequisites & course information
Also listed as EURR 5113 .