combines the representation of member states with that of individual citizens. Democratization typically entails enhancing the … antebellum US, which also featured dual representation, and where a great wave of democratization took place following Jackson …-majoritarian constitutional safeguards. This transatlantic comparison suggests the contestational system born of EU democratization will require …

primarily the value of democracy for Spanish membership, studying archived historical documents opens up the window for an … and devising measures for its improvement suggests that the Spanish lack of democracy could play a lesser role compared to … of a shortcut to democracy and more by the promise of economic profit and more importantly, by the wish to break from …

In June 2012 the EU set up the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) with the aim of supporting pro-democracy actors … how it is run. Second, what the EU is seeking to achieve with the EED, actor-centred democracy promotion in complex … democracy promoters in the countries in which it operates …

the specific field of human rights and democracy promotion in the current changing global order. It examines recent … rights and democracy in the current multi-polar order …