00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004637 20221031040125 0010-0520004637 221031################|##########|#eng## 9780415420891 eng 342.242 342.242 CON Constitutionalization of the European Union Constitutionalization of the European Union / Edited by Berthold Rittberger and Frank Schimmelfennig New York : Routledge, 2007 vii, 179p.; 24 cm.. ; 24 cm.. Indeks : p.167-179 This book deals with two core areas central for the development of the liberal-democratic constitutional state: the extension of the powers of representative assemblies and the institutionalization of human rights. The European Union has made remarkable progress in these two areas over the past half century. It present a theory of constitutionalization as well as comparative analyses and case studies to underscore the claim that the European integration process itself engenders a democratic self-healing mechanism. Whenever a planned step of European integration through transfers of sovereignty threatens to undermine domestic standards of parliamentary control and human rights standards, political elities in the member states regularly moblize to counteract these developments. The proponents of the Union's constitutionalization regularly invoke democratic and human rights norms shared by all members of the European Union to successfully exercise moral pressure on the skeptics of further constitutionalization. European Union Europe - Politics and government 10251/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10252/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10252/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10251/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10251/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10252/MKRI-P/XI-2008