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Compound Democracies : Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar by Sergio Fabbrini (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199235619
ISBN-139780199235612
eBay Product ID (ePID)61815263
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameCompound Democracies : Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory & Theory, World / European, Comparative Politics, American Government / General
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorSergio Fabbrini
Subject AreaPolitical Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight25.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2007-020655
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal320.3
Table Of ContentIntroduction1. Democratic transformations in Europe and AmericaPart I: Transatlantic democracies: The era of institutional divergence2. Differentiation in authority structures: state, nation and democracy in Europe and America3. Institutionalization of different governmental patterns: separation and fusion of powers in America and Europe4. Alternative paths to a modern social order: territoriality, market and welfare in America and Europe5. Different structuring of partisan politics in America and Europe: the role of parties in the political processPart II: Transatlantic democracies: the era of institutional convergence6. American compound democracy and its challenges: the domestic implications of global power7. Structural transformation of European politics: the growth of supranational European Union8. Compound democracy in America and Europe: comparing the US and the EU9. The constitutionalization of the US and the EU compound democracies10. The puzzle of compound democracy: a comparative perspectiveBibliography
SynopsisThis 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., This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyze the two systems it draws some challenging conclusions about their increasing similarity. 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. Fabbrini argues 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., This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyze 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., This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyze 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.
LC Classification NumberJK275.F33 2007
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