Compound Democracies
Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 15 November 2007
- ISBN 9780199235612
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 242x164x25 mm
- Weight 712 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 tables, 8 figures 0
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Short description:
A major and broad-ranging new comparison of the American and European political systems that argues provocatively that they are growing increasingly similar and offers a compelling new model for understanding them.
MoreLong description:
This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyse the two systems it draws some challenging conclusions about their increasing similarity. Professor Fabbrini argues that the process of regional integration in Europe over the last 60 years, has significantly reduced the historical differences between the democracies on either side of the Atlantic. The EU and the US are now similar because they represent two
different species of the same political genus: the compound democracy. The defining feature of compound democracy is the union of states and their citizens. Through such union, the states agree to pool their sovereignty within a larger integrated supra-state or supranational framework. They do so
because these unions are primarily pacts for avoiding war. Because the states which made those unions were, and continue to be, asymmetrically correlated, any attempt to create a unified polity - that is a political system where the decision-making power is monopolized by only one institution - is likely to fail. He goes on to argue that the US and the EU are based on a multiple diffusion of powers which guarantees that any interest can have a voice in the decision-making process and no
majority will be able to control all the institutional levels of the polity. This type of system allows an inter-states organization to operate as a supra-state polity - but it does so at the expense of decision-making capacity and accountability.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Democratic transformations in Europe and America
Part I: Transatlantic democracies: The era of institutional divergence
Differentiation in authority structures: state, nation and democracy in Europe and America
Institutionalization of different governmental patterns: separation and fusion of powers in America and Europe
Alternative paths to a modern social order: territoriality, market and welfare in America and Europe
Different structuring of partisan politics in America and Europe: the role of parties in the political process
Part II: Transatlantic democracies: the era of institutional convergence
American compound democracy and its challenges: the domestic implications of global power
Structural transformation of European politics: the growth of supranational European Union
Compound democracy in America and Europe: comparing the US and the EU
The constitutionalization of the US and the EU compound democracies
The puzzle of compound democracy: a comparative perspective
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