Political Theory and the European Constitution

Lynn Dobson is Lecturer in European and International Politics at the University of EdinburghAndreas Follesdal is Research Professor at ARENA - Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-State - at the Research Council of Norway, and Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo.

• Introduction Lynn Dobson and Andreas FøllesdalPart 1: Constitutionalising a multinational federation?1. 'Is federalism for Europe a solution or a problem: Tocqueville inverted, perverted or subverted?' Philippe C. Schmitter2. 'The EU as a Self-sustaining Federation: Specifying the Constitutional Conditions' David McKay, University of Essex3. 'A Union of Peoples? Diversity and the Predicaments of a Multinational Polity' Peter A. KrausPart 2: Philosophical contestations: the Convention process1. 'The Normality of Constitutional Politics: an Analysis of the Drafting of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights' Richard Bellamy and Justus Schönlau2. 'Europe united under God or not - or both?' Tore Vincents Olsen3. 'The Open Method of Co-ordination in the European Convention: an opportunity lost?' Myrto TsakatikaPart 3: The Union's values: liberty, democracy, transparency, and rights1. 'Liberty and power in the Constitution' Lynn Dobson2, 'The constitutional labelling of 'the democratic life of the EU': representative and 'participatory' democracy' Stijn Smismans3. 'Transparency and output legitimacy' Daniel Naurin4. 'An institutional dialogue on common principles. The significance of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights' Claudia Attucci5. 'Motivating Judges. Democracy, Judicial Discretion, and the European Court of Human Rights' Roberto Gargarella6. Conclusion: Andreas Føllesdal and Lynn Dobson

'A much needed theoretical examination of how we understand the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.'David J. Galbreath, Political Studies Review