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Centripetal democracy : democratic legitimacy and political identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union
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ISBN: 0191838578 0192517147 0192517155 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This volume offers a model of democratic legitimacy for the European Union.


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Centripetal democracy : democratic legitimacy and political identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union
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ISBN: 9780198796886 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct democratic voting opportunities are emphasised on this model. There is, however, a strain of thought predominant in political theory that doubts the democratic capacities of political systems constituted by multiple public spheres. This view is referred to as the lingua franca thesis on sustainable democratic systems (LFT). Inadequate democratic institutions and acute demands to divide the political system (through devolution or secession), are predicted by this thesis. By combining an original normative democratic theory with a comparative analysis of how Belgium and Switzerland have variously managed to sustain themselves as multilingual democracies, this book identifies the main institutional features of a democratically legitimate European Union and the conditions required to bring it about. Part One presents a novel theory of democratic legitimacy and political identity formation on which subsequent analyses are based. Part Two defines the EU as a demoi-cracy and provides a thorough democratic assessment of this political system. Part Three explains why Belgium has largely succumbed to the centrifugal logic predicted by the LFT, while Switzerland apparently defies this logic. Part Four presents a model of centripetal democracy for the EU, one that would greatly reduce its democratic deficit and ensure that this political system does not succumb to the centrifugal forces expected by the LFT.


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An educational pilgrimage to the United States : travel diary of Raymond Buyse, 1922
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ISBN: 9789058678751 905867875X Year: 2011 Volume: 46 Publisher: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press,

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In 1922, Raymond Buyse, a young Belgian 'pedologist', undertook, together with the famous Dr. Ovide Decroly, a study tour of the United States of America. Both were interested in the 'scientific' study of the child and especially in applied American psychology. They met well-known American professors and visited universities that were developing these aspects of educational psychology. Back in Belgium, they dedicated several books and articles to the issues discussed during the trip. Less known is that Raymond Buyse noted his impressions and reflections of the trip in a diary. Buyse writes in a lively style about his encounters with the 'great' psychologists and pedagogues of that time and in doing so this diary adds a new dimension to the study of the history of educational psychology in Belgium and far beyond.


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The Good and the Right in John Rawls' Political Liberalism : a Metaphysical Investigation into the Political Conception of Person.
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Year: 2011 Publisher: Leuven K.U.Leuven. Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte

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