Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity

Introduction: Inventing the EU as a democratic polity.- 1. Conceptualising representative democracy in the EU.- 2. Towards a reflexive perspective on political concepts.- 3. Studying Conceptual Change via European integration: A Research Agenda.- 4. Studying conceptual controversies in this book.- 5. Inventing the EU-but as a democratic polity or as a balance of powers?.- 6. Towards the bases of representative democracy-parliament, citizenry, and government.- 7. Who did it, when, and how? Treaty changes, law implementation, and interinstitutonal micropolitics.- 8. A dynamic perspective on the EP´s power gains: studying interinstitutional micropolitics.- 9. Inventing and shaping EU citizens.- 10. A defective supranational democracy? Government, Parliament, Head of State in the EU system.- 11. Parliamentarism and the European Parliament: potentials and limits.- 12. European Council - Government, Parliament, President or intergovernmental assembly?.- 13. Citizenship, Democracy and demos-building in the EU.- 14. Capitalism, Democracy and the European Union.- 15. Citizenship, Social rights and democracy.- 16. Parliaments versus Executives in the financial crisis.- Conclusion: The EU as a democratic polity?.