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Elections to the European Parliament as a challenge for democracy, edited by Elżbieta Kużelewska and Dariusz Kloza

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Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Elections to the European Parliament as a challenge for democracy

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edited by Elżbieta Kużelewska and Dariusz Kloza

European integration and democracy series, vol. 2

"The present book constitutes a second volume in a series of peer-reviewed publications on democracy and European integration, edited by the Center for Direct Democracy Studies (CCDS) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok, Poland. ...The main motivation for this book came from a long-term debate--yet recently spirited, due to the forthcoming 2014 elections--on the place of the European Parliament in the democratic life of the European Union (EU; the Union). The 18 chapters of this volume analyse a wide range of challenges for democracy posed by the EP elections. If we were to make a 'word cloud', it would be dominated by keywords such as democratic deficit, legitimacy crisis, low turnout, second-order elections, alternative voting methods, lack of European public space, non-existence of European parties as well as the need for a unifrom electoral procedure."--Preface

Part 1: The institution -- How European are the European elections? The European Parliament's long struggle for a direct and universal suffrage conducted according to a uniform electoral procedure / Rafal Trzaskowskł and Joanna Popielawska -- Do the groups in the European Parliament really form a party system? / Davide Denti -- Can "electoral engineering" bring Europe closer to its citizens? / Elena Cîncea -- Gender quotas in the elections to the European Parliament / Magdalena Półtorak -- Citizen-European Parliament-external action of the European Union : selected issues / Tomasz Dubowski -- The empowerment of the European Parliament in political and constitutional discourse / Franciszek Strzyczkowski -- Part 2: Voting systems to the European Parliament in selected member states of the European Union -- European Parliamentary elections in Belgium / Maaike Geuens -- Voting to the European Parliament in the Czech Republic : the second-order elections / Helena Bončková -- The Spanish electoral system for the European Parliament : proportional representation vs. territorial identity / Francisco J. Vanaclocha and Rubén Sánchez Medero -- European Parliament elections in Spain : on the proportionality and representation of nationalist and regionalist parties / Guillermo Cordero and José Ramón Montero -- The transposition of the common electoral rules for the European Parliament into national legislation in Greece / Georgia Christina Kosmidou -- The fatal republic : how France is going full speed towards its multi-layer electoral walls which create incoherency and uncertainty for the future / Bernhard Kitous -- The electoral law for the European Parliament in Malta. Effects for Europe of a single transferable vote system in a polarised society / Davide Denti -- Polish European Parliament election law in the context of universality of elections and civic participation / Andrzej Jackiewicz -- Low turnout in European elections : the Swedish electoral system and prospects for a single voting system in the European Union / Davide Carrino -- Europeanising European elections : a view from the United Kingdom / Bogusia Puchalska -- Part 3: Voting systems in a comparative perspective -- E-voting to the European Parliament and United States Congress. An attempt of comparison / Elżbieta Kużelewska and Izabela Kraśnicka -- The impact of the European Union on party systems. The case of Serbia and Montenegro / Marko Babić