RAPORTAREA UNIUNII EUROPENE LA CONCEPTELE CONSACRATE ALE TEORIEI POLITICE: DEMOCRAȚIE ȘI LEGITIMITATE

Autori

  • IULIANA-LĂCRĂMIOARA TINCU

Cuvinte cheie:

democracy, legitimacy, European Union, political system

Rezumat

The European Union represents an entity that, due to its institutional architecture and to its modus operandi, poses a challenge to the fundamental concepts of political theory and demands, consequently, their re-evaluation. In this context, the present article represents an attempt to consider the European Union in relation to two long-established concepts of political theory – democracy and legitimacy. At the same time, considering the European Union as a product of voluntary integration at a supranational level, this paper addresses the question of the nature of the European Union, arguing the integration of the European structure in the category of political systems, although it has a series of characteristics that reinforce the assumption that it is neither a state nor an international organisation and, what is more, the a further deepening of the integration process will not bring it closer to either of the two conventional types of organisation.

Biografie autor

IULIANA-LĂCRĂMIOARA TINCU

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași.

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20-12-2019