Europe: project and process
citizens, democracy, participation
- ISBN: 9782875741905
- Editorial: Peter Lang
- Fecha de la edición: 2014
- Lugar de la edición: Brussels. Bélgica
- Colección: Cuadernos de Yuste
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 21 cm
- Nº Pág.: 157
- Idiomas: Inglés
With this book the author wants to convey the relevance of two vectors that are part of the European integration and the EU’s personality: the value to be both project and process. The key themes of the book are European supranational democracy; the participation of the civil society in the EU; the interaction between European citizens and the European institutions; education as a key element of active citizenship; solidarity, participation, and communication «in European»; and the necessary formulation of what Dr. Susana del Rio calls: a new European politics, where a shared responsibility is fundamental to the achievement of a quality European democracy. The author emphasizes that, to restore public credibility in politics, representative democracy has to lead the way, as representative democracy is complemented by participatory democracy.
