| Tekijä: | Chryssochoou, D. N. |
| Otsikko: | New Challenges to the study of European Integration: Implications for Theory-Building |
| Lehti: | Journal of Common Market Studies
1997 : DEC, Vol. 35:4, p. 521-542 |
| Asiasana: | EUROPEAN INTEGRATION EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The progressive fusion of federal principles, confederal structures and consociational processes in the EU of the 1990s has set in train a sense of renewed theoretical excitement among its students. This article aims to asses the dialectics of theory-building in the larger polity, and reveal alternative ways of reconceptualizing its current political properties and functions. Focusing on the dynamic interplay between autonomous self-rule and collective governance, it advances the theory of confederal consociation, arguing that it is possible to strike a balance between the concurrent demands for territorial segmental autonomy and "ever closer union" insofar as the constituent parts are bound together in a sensibly arranged "Union" that is closer to a Gesellschaft rather than to a Gemeinschaft-type of transnational organization. |
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