eprintid: 1383517 rev_number: 40 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/38/35/17 datestamp: 2013-01-21 19:42:28 lastmod: 2021-10-13 23:23:05 status_changed: 2013-01-21 19:42:28 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Bellamy, R creators_name: Castiglione, D title: Three models of democracy, political community and representation in the EU ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F30 keywords: Community, democracy, demoi-cracy, EU, national parliaments, representation abstract: The EU’s political system represents European citizens via three different channels: through the European Parliament, indirectly through their Governments in the Council, and through domestic elections, which hold these last democratically accountable to National Parliaments or citizens. However, these channels involve different and incompatible types of representation and forms of democracy, reflecting divergent conceptions of political community which, following Philip Pettit, we term solidarism, singularism and civicity respectively. The first channel seeks to represent the common good of a European people; the second the mutual self-interest of the single Member States. We argue the first lacks social and political legitimacy, while the second proves insufficient to tackle collective European problems equitably or effectively. We propose reinforcing the third channel so as to modify these other two and produce a European ‘demoi-cracy’ able to sustain the form of representative democracy we associate with a civicity. We contend such a system fosters an `ever closer Union among the peoples of Europe’ by allowing the construction of shared policies that treat the different demoi with equal concern and respect. date: 2013-02-01 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2013.746118 vfaculties: VSHS oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_source: WoS-Lite elements_id: 845560 doi: 10.1080/13501763.2013.746118 lyricists_name: Bellamy, Richard lyricists_id: RBELL43 full_text_status: public publication: JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY volume: 20 number: 2 pagerange: 206 - 223 issn: 1350-1763 citation: Bellamy, R; Castiglione, D; (2013) Three models of democracy, political community and representation in the EU. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY , 20 (2) 206 - 223. 10.1080/13501763.2013.746118 <https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2013.746118>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1383517/1/10.1080-13501763.2013.746118.pdf