Power and authority in the European Union: «Kings of the hill» and «grand coalitions»
https://doi.org/10.31249/poln/2019.03.11
Abstract
How is power and authority distributed in the European Union? What role does state capacity play in the framework of relations between the levels of authority in the EU? In this article, we seek to answer these questions by addressing two key approaches to the analysis of the European Union as a multi-level system of gover- nance: the structural-actor approach and the approach of consociational democracy. While supporters of the structural-actor approach perceive the EU as a hierarchical system, where one of the levels of power is always in a position of dominance and can dictate its rules of the game, the theoreticians of European consociationalism are more interested in the issues related to the decision-making process under the conditions of «grand coalitions», horizontal and vertical accountability and democratic deficit.
About the Author
A. B. Sorbale
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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