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Follesdal, A and Hix, S. (2005) ‘Why there is a democratic deficit in the EU‘ European Governance Papers (EUROGOV) No. C-05-02; Kelemen, Dr. R. Daniel; (2004) ‘The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond‘ Harvard University Press; Majone, G. (2005) 'Dilemmas of European Integration'.
The nationalist Party for Freedom (founded in 2006) is a hard-eurosceptic party and wants the Netherlands to leave the EU in its entirety, because it believes the EU is undemocratic, costs money and cannot close the borders for immigrants. [174]
As with similar campaigns, Another Europe is Possible's support for a second referendum concerning the UK's relationship with the EU, has been criticised as undemocratic. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] However, the discussion of whether an additional, confirmatory, referendum would undermine the first or instead be a further exercise of democracy is contentious.
As there is a lack of classical opposition within the political system, those that are dissatisfied use their voice against the system as a whole, thus undermining the EU's legitimacy as a polity, Mair states "once we cannot organise opposition in the EU, we are then forced to organise opposition to the EU." [4]
To put it simply, in the most powerful democracy in the world, two of the nation’s last four leaders have been the less popular option among voters – due to an Electoral College system that ...
He further argues that their "Eurosceptic dogma" of an ""undemocratic" scheme of centralised regulation" is undermined by their own examples; that it is largely "British officials exercising their own discretion" and juggling the fate of special interest groups against the wider economy.
Global trend report Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2022 [1] Global Political Regimes, 2023 V-Dem – processed by Our World in Data [2] Democratic backsliding , also known as autocratization, is the decline in democratic qualities of a political regime, the opposite of democratization .
The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. Other American officials ...