Empowerment and Disempowerment of the European Citizen
Michael Dougan, Niamh Nic Shuibhne, Eleanor Spaventa - Hart Publishing Limited, 2012
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This collection engages with a central
theme on EU citizenship - the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation
of others - and expands the horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and
trends can be identified in other fields of European integration. The focus of
the book is distinctly citizen-focused. It delivers the potential for the
opening out of analysis of the implications of European citizenship beyond the
parameters of Articles 18-25 TFEU and beyond the disciplinary confines of legal
analysis alone. The book construes 'EU citizenship' in its broadest sense, and
explores the extent to which the European citizen is, or indeed is not,
genuinely at the heart of EU law and policy making. What is the purpose and role
of this transnational, regional regulator, given that citizen concerns seem
focused primarily at either the infra State or global levels? Within the broader
theme of empowerment and disempowerment, the book's contributors reflect on a
range of cross cutting themes, for example: the extent to which channels of
citizen participation (can) inform EU policy making in a 'bottom-up' sense, or
whether the EU is a catalyst for the construction of new spaces and new
identities. (Series: Modern Studies in European Law - Vol. 35)
