This doesn’t make it into a demoicracy, a pioneering concept advocated by the Oxford academic Kalypso Nicolaidis. Nicolaidis wants to see Europe as “a Union of peoples, understood both as states and ...

“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.

She describes it as a “demoicracy” respecting the integrity of national democracies that are willing to share such a radical and flexible pluralism.

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 ...

She will combine legal theory, philosophy and ethics to assess the validity and plausability of the recognition promise and discuss the betrayal of what she calls “demoicracy” in the EU.

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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 ...