RECON seeks to clarify whether democracy is possible under conditions of pluralism, diversity and complex multilevel governance. This includes taking proper heed of the challenges to democracy at EU and national levels.
RECON spells out three different models for democratic reconstitution:
- Democracy can be reconstituted at the national level with a concomitant reframing of the EU as a functional regulatory regime
- Democracy can be reconstituted through establishing the EU as a federal state based on a collective identity
- Democracy can be reconstituted through developing a post-national Union with an explicit cosmopolitan imprint
RECON assesses which approach to democratic reconstitution is most viable – in empirical and normative terms – through analyzing the EU’s constitutionalisation process; the institutional complex at the EU and member state levels; the role and status of gender within the enlarged Europe; the democratic quality and governing capacity of the Union within tax/fiscal and foreign/security policy; and the multilevel configuration of civil society/public sphere. It examines the effects of external transnationalisation on the EU and discerns democratic lessons from comparison with non-European complex multilevel entities. RECON enhances knowledge of the enlargement process: the transition and consolidation of democracy in the new member states and of the overall challenges posed by globalization to established democracies. RECON identifies strategies through which democracy can be strengthened and participation of citizens increased, and provides a set of policy recommendations in line with these.
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As an outcome of a five-year international research project “RECON – Reconstituting democracy in Europe”, this volume presents country case studies of Central and East European countries and comparative findings from research on the transformation of collective identities in Central and Eastern Europe under the conditions of an enlarging Europe.
The chapter attempts to clarify the concept of collective identity and its intrinsic relationship to democracy. Further on, there arediscussed possible configurations of democracy in the European Union that give expression to different national, supra-national, or post-national identitarian projects (the so-called three RECON models).
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V předkládané publikaci autorský tým projektu Rekonstituování demokracie v Evropě nabízí pohled na proměny české veřejné sféry a české politiky v kontextu přípravy Smlouvy o Ústavě pro Evropu, ratifikace Lisabonské smlouvy a následných voleb do Evropského parlamentu (2009). Období přípravy a ratifikace Lisabonské smlouvy (2004–2009) je velmi podnětné, protože představovalo v České republice klíčový posun hlavního proudu českého politického diskurzu v otázkách Evropské unie.
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