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This book highlights Europe's democracy problem. The common argument throughout is that the European Union has become over-constitutionalized, and Grimm makes recommendations for solving this. Grimm also outlines the EU's legitimacy deficit and the proposed remedy of 'parliamentarization'.
List of contents
- 1: Europe, Yes - But Which Europe?
- 2: In Search of Acceptance: On the Legitimacy Deficit and the Legitimacy Resources of the European Union
- 3: Sovereignty in Europe
- 4: On the Status of the EU's Democratic Legitimacy After Lisbon
- 5: The Democratic Costs of Constitutionalization - The European Case
- 6: The Cause of European Democracy Deficit is Sought in the Wrong Place
- 7: The Necessity of Europeanized Elections and Parties
- 8: The Significance of National Constitutions in a United Europe
- 9: The Role of National Parliaments in the European Union
- 10: The Role of National Constitutional Courts in European Democracy
- 11: The Basic Law as a Barrier Against a Transformation of the EU Into a State
- 12: Europe Needs Principles, Not Pragmatism
About the author
Dieter Grimm teaches constitutional law at Humboldt University Berlin and the Yale Law School. From 1987-1999 he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. From 2001-2007 he was the Director of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) whose Permanent Fellow he continues to be. He was Visiting Professor at Harvard, New York University, Toronto, Rome, Kolkata, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai and a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Academia Europaea and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Toronto, Göttingen, Porto Alegre, and Bucarest. He has widely published on matters of constitutional law, constitutional history, constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, and European Union law.
Summary
This book highlights Europe's democracy problem. The common argument throughout is that the European Union has become over-constitutionalized, and Grimm makes recommendations for solving this. Grimm also outlines the EU's legitimacy deficit and the proposed remedy of 'parliamentarization'.
