A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of democracy. How can the European Union be made more democratic? In whose Europe, a team of international scholars identifies barriers to further democratisation, explore potential bridges to greater democratic participation, and analyse the long term social processes shaping the new Europe.
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Prologue vii
John Rex
The Turn towards democracy 1
Dennis Smith and Sue Wright
Barriers
Our 'common European home' - but who owns the house? 21
John Markoff
Language, autonomy and national identity in Catalonia 48
Charlotte Hoffman
A community that can communicate? The linguistic factor in European integration 79
Sue Wright
Third country nationals as European citizens: the case defended 104
Andreas Follesdal
Bridges
The European public sphere and the deficit of democracy 125
Reiner Grundmann
Extending ethnolinguistic democracy in Europe: the case of Wales 147
Stephen May
Towards a post-national polity: the emergence of the Network Society in Europe 173
Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins
Citizenship and human rights - particular and universal worlds and the prospects for European citizenship 207
David Jary
Processes
Making Europe - processes of Europe-formation since 1945 235
Dennis Smith
National pride and the meaning of Europe: a compative study of Britain and Spain 257
Pablo Jauregui
Democracy in Eastern Europe as a civilizing process 288
Harald Wydra
Notes on Contributors 311
Index 315
