Democracy in Europe

Daniel Innerarity is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country and the Ikerbasque Foundation for Science, Spain, and Professor in the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute of Florence, Italy.

• 1. Introduction: Understanding European Complexity.- Part 1: Legitimacy Problems in Europe.- 2. Deficit of What? A Typology of the Legitimacy Problems in the EU.- 3. Whose Deficit? The European Democracy and its Democracies.- Part 2: The Complexity of the European Democracy.- 4. What Should Be Democratised? The Peculiarity of Democracy in Europe.- 5. Who Are We? A Democracy Without Demos.- 6. On Behalf of Whom? The Multiple Representation of Europeans.- 7. What’s New? The Political Innovation of the European Union.- Part 3: A Truly Common Europe.- 8. In Whose Benefit? The European Construction of the Common.- 9. How Much Social? The European Deficit of Justice.- 10. Who Decides? Transnational Self-Determination.- 11. Conclusion: What Can We Hope? The European Promises after Its Crisis.