2004/5
Martin Shapiro
University of California - Berkeley
Notions of deliberative democracy are much in vogue and currently being hijacked to legitimate nondemocratic technocratic policy making in the European Union by a supposedly neutral and independent Eurocracy actually composed of persons in pursuit of strong policy preferences of their own. Such a situation is particularly likely to occur in transnational policy making regimes where typically direct electoral legitimation typically is lacking and there is a desire to shield decision making from A politics @ which is seen as the particularistic demands of participating member states seeking unfair advantage.
Paper as published in 68:3-4 LCP (2005)
