Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity

<div>Preface</div><div><br></div><div>Introduction: Inventing the EU as a democratic polity</div><div><br></div><div>Part I: The theoretical and methodological toolkit</div><div>1. Conceptualising representative democracy in the EU</div><div>2. Towards a reflexive perspective on political concepts</div><div>3. Studying Conceptual Change via European integration: A Research Agenda</div><div>4. Studying conceptual controversies in this book</div><div><br></div><div>Part II: Inventing the EU as a democratic polity</div><div>5. Inventing the EU—but as a democratic polity or as a balance of powers?</div><div>6. Towards the bases of representative democracy—parliament, citizenry, and government</div><div>7. Who did it, when, and how? Treaty changes, law implementation, and interinstitutonal micropolitics</div><div>8. A dynamic perspective on the EP´s power gains: studying interinstitutional micropolitics&nbsp;</div><div>9. Inventing and shaping EU citizens</div><div>Part III: The EU as a supranational democratic polity?</div><div>10. A defective supranational democracy? Government, Parliament, Head of State in the EU system</div><div>11. Parliamentarism and the European Parliament: potentials and limits</div><div>12. European Council – Government, Parliament, President or intergovernmental assembly?&nbsp;</div><div>13. Citizenship, Democracy and demos-building in the EU</div><div><br></div><div>Part IV: The inner market, multi-level governance and democracy</div><div>14. Capitalism, Democracy and the European Union</div><div>15. Citizenship, Social rights and democracy</div><div>16. Parliaments versus Executives in the financial crisis</div><div><br></div><div>Conclusion: The EU as a democratic polity?</div>