Titlebook: Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity; Concepts, Actors and Claudia Wiesner Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity: Introduction,hinkers that conceptualised and later realised what for a long time had been a utopia—the unification of Europe. The question of how to conceptualise the new polity has be contested from the very beginning, as concepts, ideas or utopias of European unification differ considerably. The processes of i

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Conceptualising Representative Democracy in the EUd .-.. These three clusters are key in the theory and practice of representative democracy, challenging and challenged in their relations to the EU and allowing different possibilities to construct conceptual frameworks. The chapter sketches which meanings were attributed to the three clusters histo

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Towards a Reflexive Perspective on Political Conceptslyse reality. Contrary to a positivist and essentialist interpretation of concepts, and based on the approach of conceptual history, I argue that .. It only obtains this concrete meaning when it is defined and operationalised, and that means, first, .. Concepts are socially constructed and used in a

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Studying Conceptual Controversies in This Bookrk on the methodology and techniques of analysing conceptual controversies. It is argued that these are reflected in written debates (including academic ones) and in documents. I regard debates and documents as part, arenas and reflections of conceptual controversies. The controversies are seen as p

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Inventing the EU: But as a Democratic Polity or a Balance of Powers?th the first conceptions of European unification in the history of ideas. European unification is an old utopia that has been associated with high-aiming goals such as a more peaceful and democratic Europe. Despite this normative orientation, one core controversy is already visible in the early unif

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A Dynamic Perspective on the EP’s Power Gains: Studying Interinstitutional Micro-politicsempowering the European Parliament (EP) and in developing its relation to Commission and Council towards one that shapes parliament–government relations in representative democracies. The EP’s interinstitutional micro-politics have strengthened EP powers regarding scrutiny, accountability and invest

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Inventing and Shaping EU Citizensip has been decisively shaped by a typical interrelation between conceptual innovations, law-making and their being put into institutional practice. EU citizenship rights were first based on conceptual innovations in the sense that “innovating ideologists” invented them. These conceptual innovations