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This chapter focuses on how the Eurocrisis affects representative democracy in the multilevel European Union (EU), taking the broader framework of this book into account, that is, ‘political sociology of crisis-ridden Europe is first and foremost needed to reinterpret the long-term social and political transformation of European states and societies in facing new global challenges’ (Introduction, this volume). In other words, we need to pay attention to the broader patterns of sociopolitical transformation and, based on that, consider the effects of the crisis. This chapter focuses on (a) how broader socio-political transformations manifest themselves in the representative ecologies that make up the multilevel European Union; and (b) with that in mind, considers the more specific effects that the Eurocrisis has on the system of representative democracy in Europe. The chapter’s point of departure is the multilevel structure of representation that has emerged in the EU. Understanding that will provide us with a better sense of how the broader representative ecologies in the multilevel EU have been transformed in the context of crisis.
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Fossum, J.E. (2015). The Crisis and the Question of De-parliamentarization in Europe. In: Trenz, HJ., Ruzza, C., Guiraudon, V. (eds) Europe’s Prolonged Crisis. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493675_3
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