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What makes the EU viable?European integration in the light of the antebellum US experience /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	What makes the EU viable?Andrew Glencross.
Reminder of title:	European integration in the light of the antebellum US experience /
Author:	Glencross, Andrew.
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	xii, 232 p. ;23 cm.
Subject:	European federation.
Subject:	Europe
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230240896

What makes the EU viable?European integration in the light of the antebellum US experience /
Glencross, Andrew.

What makes the EU viable?European integration in the light of the antebellum US experience /[electronic resource] :Andrew Glencross. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xii, 232 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Questioning What Makes the EU Viable -- The Problem ofViability in a Compound Polity -- Developing an Analogical Comparison between the EU and the Antebellum US Republic -- Comparing how the Rules of the Game are Contested -- The Struggle to Maintain a Compound System: Creating and Contesting the Rules of the Game in European Integration -- Contrasting and Explaining the Viability of Two Compound Systems -- The Future Evolution of the EU Compound Polity: The Obstacles to Voluntary Centralization -- Conclusion: Implications for EU Studies and the Debate over the Future of Integration.

This book is distinguished by its use of the antebellum US experience as a foil to address the under-explored question of what makes the EUviable. The nature of political conflict in both casesis defined in terms of four contested rules of the game: state sovereignty, federal competences, political representation and decision-making procedures. Hence, viabilty is conceptualized as the ability to find an agreement overthese four elements.   The analysis shows that, to remain viable,the antebellum USA resorted to an ultimately untenable voluntary centralization of these rules of thegame. Conversely, the EU has maintaineda dynamic equilibrium, although this is not a self-reinforcing process. The transatlantic contrast is then used to examine proposals for reforming the EU, especially its system of political representation. The comparison reveals that, despite high expectations, changing the system of representation is no shortcut solution for the EU's constitutional woes.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230240896

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230240896doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

222255
European Union.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

186050
European federation.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

244548
Europe
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JN30 / .G568 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 341.242/2

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