Overview
- Topicality: shortly after the accession of 8 new member states from Central and Eastern Europe to the EU
- Scholarly and political importance: what is the potential of the EU to "promote democracy and the rule of law"?
- Originality: no other book has addressed this set of issues in such a comprehensive and inter-disciplinary way
- Academic quality: the authors are among the leading scholars of European integration, comparative law and political sociology
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Democratic Institutions and Practices
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Constitutionalism
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About this book
The accession of eight post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (and also of Malta and Cyprus) to the European Union in 2004 has been heralded as perhaps the most important development in the history of European integration so far. While the impact of the enlargement on the constitutional structures and practices of the EU has already generated a rich scholarly literature, the influence of the accession on constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law among the new member states has been largely ignored. This book fills this gap, and addresses the question of the consequences of the "external force" of European enlargement upon the understanding and practice of democracy and the rule of law and among both the main legal-political actors and the general public in the new member-states. A number of leading legal scholars, sociologists and political scientists, both from Central and Eastern Europe and from outside, address these issues in a systematic and critical way. Taken together, these essays help answer a fundamental question: does the European Union have the potential of promoting and consolidate democracy and human rights?
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?
Book Subtitle: The Impact of EU Enlargemente for the Rule of Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Legal Orders
Editors: Wojciech Sadurski, Adam Czarnota, Martin Krygier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3842-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3841-9Published: 28 February 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6978-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3842-6Published: 30 July 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 390
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Public International Law, Political Science, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy