Democratic theory and the European Union: focusing on ‘interest’ or ‘reason’?

Journal of European Integration

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-284

  Auberger, Tobias ^a   Iszkowski, Krzysztof ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

deliberative democracy; Democratic deficit; democratic theory; liberal democracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044799294     PISSN: 07036337     EISSN: 14772280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07036330701442257     Document Type: Article

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