Instead, it is constituted by 27 member states with their 27 separate demoi. This doesn’t make it into a demoicracy, a pioneering concept advocated by the Oxford academic Kalypso Nicolaidis.

“Demoicracy” sounds like the way a New Yorker might pronounce democracy, but it is actually a very specific term used to describe the structure of the European Union (EU) and how it operates.

A more generous vision of the EU could be more to the UK’s liking – and Ireland’s Boris Johnson’s withdrawal agreement shifts policy towards greater divergence, in a deregulatory bonfire ...

Using the philosophical concept of ‘mutual recognition’ as a heuristic key, the authors chart the fluctuating fortunes of stereotypical representations of Greeks and Germans in the media of their ...

In this lecture professor Nicolaidis will argue that we can more fruitfully read both the original promise of the XXth century European project and its XXIst century demise through the twin prisms of ...

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If we wish to better understand the European switchboard demoicracy we must move beyond those seemingly ironclad tenets that have always distorted these arguments: democratic deficit; localism and ...