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Europe, laboratory for a-democracy?
Europa, Laboratorium für A-Demokratie?
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Abstract "A-democracy is for a given society a state in which, like the apples sold in supermarkets, democracy has now only the appearance of democracy, without the taste (no real practice and effectivity) that should go along with it. This contribution claims that, for the leaders of the neoliberal global m... view more
"A-democracy is for a given society a state in which, like the apples sold in supermarkets, democracy has now only the appearance of democracy, without the taste (no real practice and effectivity) that should go along with it. This contribution claims that, for the leaders of the neoliberal global market and finance, the searched political solution for its crisis is how to change everything without changing anything. The construction of Europe appears a de facto laboratory for experiments aimed at this objective. For the European Union is using in different fields forms of democracy whose specificity is to imply participants (peoples, actors, organizations, national political elites) in a game in which they control neither the rules, nor the data, the agendas, or the outcomes. The contribution reviews a series of these forms; which describe passages to a-democracy in the current crisis." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
EU; market organization; neoliberalism; democracy; crisis; law; world market
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
European Politics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 185-199
Journal
Historical Social Research, 40 (2015) 1
Issue topic
Law and conventions from a historical perspective
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.40.2015.1.185-199
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed