Macroeconomic sovereignty in the European Economic and Monetary Union: a republican approach

Merlo, Stefano ORCID: 0000-0001-9204-5959 (2024) Macroeconomic sovereignty in the European Economic and Monetary Union: a republican approach. Political Studies. ISSN 0032-3217

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Abstract

The Economic and Monetary Union has fundamentally changed how fiscal and monetary powers are exercised over democratic publics which raise the question of whether a normative vision of macroeconomic sovereignty is compatible with membership within the Eurozone. After conceptualising sovereignty in republican terms as the balance between four ‘power-countering strategies’, this article conducts a normative analysis of the evolution of Economic and Monetary Union governance. This exercise shows how – by neglecting one of the four republican strategies, namely to increase citizens’ democratic participation at the European Union level – successive institutional innovations as well as recent proposals fail to make the exercise of public powers compatible with citizens’ status equality. In contrast, the argument suggests that if citizens’ influence is channelled through a ‘system of dual partisanship’, in which national and European parliamentarians coordinate their activities, national and Economic and Monetary Union’ executives’ discretion can be democratically controlled.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JC Political theory
Date Deposited:	03 Feb 2025 14:39
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2025 12:33
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127160

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