Böcker av Edoardo Bressanelli

This volume explores how and why EU-level actors respond to the various, sometime competing, 'bottom up' demands, and challenges the view that domestic contestation necessarily limits EU-level room for manoeuvre.

By comparing the importance of representative democracy to the EU as enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty with the political systems in the EU's newest member states, this study explores whether representative democracy can really exist in an enlarged EU and explores the constraints and opportunities for political parties operating the in the EU.