) 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 …

strategies is reconstituting democracy in Europe and beyond. Third, we map the current state of welfare provision in Europe …

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