Sökning: "Democracy Deficit"

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1. 1. Democratic Deficit within the Champion of Democracy: How the United States is experiencing similar democratic failures as the European Union

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Edwin Ögren; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Congress; Democratic deficit; USA; Legislative branch; EU; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : This bachelor thesis seeks to find out if the Congress, the legislative power of the United States of America, is suffering from the phenomenon of democratic deficit and what the causes of that may be. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s democracy index for 2021, the U.S. LÄS MER

3. 2. When Political Interest is not Enough: A quantitative study on what deterred politically interested citizens from voting in the 2019 European Parliamentary election

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Eric Andell; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Political interest; non-voters; voter turnout; EU democracy; euroscepticism; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : The European Union (EU) has long suffered from a democratic deficit, something that has been highlighted many times by politicians, media and citizens alike. The EU has in turn tried to better its democratic standing by increasing the power of the European Parliament (EP) through the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009. LÄS MER

4. 3. The European Union and its Democratic Deficit(s) : A descriptive idea-analysis

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Ylva Gustafsson; [2022]
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   Sammanfattning : Despite the EU’s profound commitment to uphold and promote democracy, scholars have throughout the years argued that the organization suffers from two separate, although seemingly related, democratic paradoxes and deficits: one focusing on the supranational EU-level and the Union at large, one addressing the national EU-level and the member-state components of the system. Despite the shared themes and verdicts of the EU as democratically defective – little to no attention has yet been paid to elaborate on how these debates might be connected. LÄS MER

5. 4. An arena for effective opposition? : A systematic investigation into political opposition in the European Parliament

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Emelie Lundell; [2021]
   Nyckelord :political opposition; opposition deficit; European Parliament; European Union; Peter Mair; democratic legitimacy; democratic deficit;

   Sammanfattning : The European Union is suffering from a legitimacy crisis, which thus far has culminated with Great Britain’s decision to exit the union. According to the ‘opposition deficit thesis’, this is caused as there is no arena in which effective opposition can be voiced in the European Union, which forces EU citizens to organise their opposition outside the political system, and often against it. LÄS MER

7. 5. Malmöinitiativet! : En väg mot demokratiutveckling?

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Isabel Vogl Etchechury; [2021]
   Nyckelord :participation; Malmö; democracy; legitimacy;

   Sammanfattning : This essay examines the thoughts and attitudes of four municipal politicians and one public official in Malmö towards the Malmö initiative in the context of meaningful participation and with the purpose to strengthen and develop democracy. Prior research points towards a great deficit in previous attempts at involving citizens in a meaningful way, the research aim is to conclude if the Malmö initiative has suffered the same fate or differs. LÄS MER