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The first three parts of the book have concentrated on conceptualising and discussing how the EU’s political system has been invented and by whom, and to what extent it has been developing towards the triad of representative democracy. The fourth and last part of the book focuses on global financialised capitalism, multilevel governance, negative integration and their critical effects on democracy. It is the core argument of this chapter that, to understand why EU integration and governance in the EU have critical effects on democracy both in the EU itself and at member state level, we need to study the interplay of a system that is marked by over-constitutionalisation, negative integration, and multilevel governance and all this in the context of global financialised capitalism.
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A related argument occurred in the French 2005 discourse on the Constitutional Treaty, when Treaty critics argued that the words “free market” appeared over a hundred times in the draft Constitutional Treaty, whereas the word “democracy” was rare (Koselleck 2006).
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Wiesner, C. (2019). Democracy in the European Union in Times of Global Financialised Capitalism. In: Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94415-9_15
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