) incompatibility between democracy and justice; the idea that a context of justice only exists within the confines of a state; and the … view that political democracy presupposes a demos organised within a state. Only if these dogmas are overcome can a proper … conception of transnational justice and democracy be worked out. The key to this is the right picture of justice as based on a …

the EU. Such a solution entails reconstituting democracy (rather than simply abolishing the EU or uploading nation …-state democracy to the EU-level). We briefly outline three models for how to reconstitute democracy in Europe; each of which reflects …

Europeanisation and globalisation are frequently held to undermine national democracy. What are then the prospects for … democracy in the multi-level constellation that makes up the contemporary European political order? The European debate has … taken the question of democracy beyond the nation state. But can there be democracy without nation and state? The authors …

create a volatile dynamic for the future of democracy at both national and EU level. …

institutions, this paper offers a theory of democratization for transnational polities. Democratizing a polity such as the European … that realize freedom as nondomination. In light of these conditions, the republican dimension of democratization can be … made explicit in a conception of a democratic minimum, in which democratization depends upon the effective capacity of …

Treaty ruling. This is needed because the ruling is ambiguous with regard to what democracy for what Union. In order to … analyse the ruling we establish three models of what European democracy possibly can amount to: Audit democracy based on the …’s argumentation does not lend support to this notion. The Court models democracy on a rather specific set of institutional …

, and concludes that No European Democracy without European Taxation. In the second part, the three general RECON models are …

order to come to grips with this we present an institutional variant of deliberative theory, which understands democracy as …. We show that the EU has established an incomplete system of representative democracy steeped in a distinct representation …