Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Scharpf Fritz W.
    Das Dilemma der supranationalen Demokratie in Europa
    in Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft , Volume 43 (2015), Issue 1 ,  2015 ,  11-28
    In Habermas’ view, the “screaming injustice” of present euro-rescuing measures must be overcome through a further transfer of sovereignty to the Union and a commitment to the solidaristic resolution of the present crisis. In economic terms, unfortunately, such policies may be counterproductive as long as the Monetary Union is maintained. In any case, however, Habermas assumes that they must depend on the legitimacy of a supranational European democracy which is effectively able to resolve fundamental political conflicts. Such legitimacy, he proposes, may be derived from the construct of a dual basis of European sovereignty, rooted in the totality of individual European citizens and of European peoples organized as democratic states. In terms of democratic theory, however, dual sovereignty also implies supermajoritarian decision rules protecting the legitimate diversity of member polities - which would reproduce the institutional constraints of consensus politics which supranational democracy is supposed to overcome.
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