State of the Art paper in the nature of the Union´s political order

Contents:

• Introduction
• Part 1: Three readings of the EU as a polity post-ratification failure
1. The EU as a problem-solving polity
2. The EU as a democratic polity
3. The EU as the management of diversity: integration through institutionalisation
• Part 2. Critique from a system-building perspective
• Conclusions
• References