White, Jonathan 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4668-698X
(2015)
Emergency Europe.
Political Studies, 63 (2).
300 - 318.
ISSN 0032-3217
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Abstract
At the level of general principle, representative democracy is appealed to by the EU institutions and member states alike. Yet in today's Europe it risks being marginalised amidst the actions and rhetoric of emergency – a norm to be waived in a state of exception, leaving decisions of lasting consequence shielded from public debate. A German constitutional theorist once famously defined as sovereign the one who has the power to declare the state of exception, and linked this power closely to executive suspensions of the law. The European setting invites a different understanding of an emergency regime: one that is manifest in the contravention of norms which may or may not be legally codified, and which is collectively produced by multiple actors. The persistence of politics in the emergency register indicates precisely the weakness of political authority. The article goes on to examine how exceptional this exceptionalism is. Is Europe's emergency politics a recent phenomenon, or has it been one of the currents of European integration from the beginning?
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author. Political Studies © 2013 Political Studies Association. |
| Divisions: | European Institute |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2013 14:49 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2024 05:51 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/52841 |
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