diverse, negotiational democracy, and competition among multiple authorities. The described strategies and processes reinforce …

The European Union is a composite democracy (Heritier 1999a; Benz 1998; Auel et al 2000; Manin 2000). It is comprised … element of negotiative democracy that is, governance in policy networks, as an ubiquitous mode of governance in Europe, on the … right to know who makes which decisions when, associative representation and negotiative democracy emphasise the output …

the European Union (EU): first, a political union or a European state; second, a differentiated and flexible integration … disintegration and/or dissolution of the EU through the exit of individual members or a joint decision to terminate the union. Design … paper finds that neither a European state or deep political union nor a disintegration or even dissolution of the EU is the …