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Saward, Michael (2013) Enacting citizenship and democracy in Europe. In: Isin, Engin F. and Saward, Michael, (eds.) Enacting European Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 220-237. ISBN 9781139524025
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139524025.012
Abstract
Both the activating and the constituting are important faces of EU democracy-to-come (Derrida 2004). They bear a complex intertwined relationship. The common presentation of the ‘democratic deficit’ can be described more precisely as being an ‘institutional deficit’. But addressing the institutional deficit should be no bar to addressing the non-institutional, insurgent, assertive acts of citizenship which enact different interpretations of democratic principles – different, but by no means less legitimate in the democratic universe (see e.g. Aradau and Huysmans 2009). Given the uncountability and unpredictability of assertive acts of citizenship, their contribution to democracy may be unruly. But this may add up to a picture of Europe characterised by an unruly surfeit, rather than (or even alongside) an institutional deficit, of democracy. This surprising surfeit may be regarded as a challenging kind of excess from the perspective of core EU institutions; if so, that might be taken as a product of the latter’s limited democratic horizons.
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration K Law [Moys] > KW European Union Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Legislation -- European Union countries -- Citizen participation, Citizenship -- European Union countries, Political participation -- European Union countries, Democracy -- European Union countries, Legitimacy of governments -- European Union countries, European Union countries -- Politics and government | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781139524025 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Enacting European Citizenship | ||||||
| Editor: | Isin, Engin F. and Saward, Michael | ||||||
| Official Date: | May 2013 | ||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 220-237 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139524025.012 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This material has been published in revised form in Saward, Michael (2013) Enacting citizenship and democracy in Europe. In: Isin, Engin F. and Saward, Michael, (eds.) Enacting European Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 220-237. ISBN 9781139524025. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © Cambridge University Press 2020 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 August 2020 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 August 2020 | ||||||
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