A More Democratic Community

Sara Lorenzini is Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Humanities and at the School of International Studies (SIS) of the University of Trento, where she teaches courses on International History (post-1945). Her most recent book is Global Development. A Cold War History (Princeton University Press, 2019). She was the recipient of a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration History (2018-2021).

Introduction: Reflections on the Place of Democracy in the Process of European Integration

Sara Lorenzini



Chapter 1. European Integration and Democracy: The Complexities of a Relationship

Martin Conway



Chapter 2. Governance versus Democracy: Negotiating Transnational European union during the Cold War

Wolfram Kaiser



Chapter 3. Making a Rod for its own Back: Explaining Commission Support for Increasing European Parliament Power, 1950-2000

Piers N. Ludlow



Chapter 4. Images and Sounds of the “Democratic Deficit”: the Italian mass media and European Integration in the 1950s

Gabriele D’Ottavio



Chapter 5. An Unexpected Problem? The Hague Summit and the Democratic Deficit

Umberto Tulli



Chapter 6. A Statement of the Obvious? The European Commission and the Internal Rationale of the Copenhagen Criteria

Benedetto Zaccaria



Chapter 7. The Spitzenkandidaten System and the ‘Snakes and Ladders’ of EU Parliamentary Democracy

Emanuele Massetti



Chapter 8. The Illiberal Fabric: Mapping the Geoculture of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

Stefano Bottoni



Chapter 9. A Democratic Brexit? Populism and Democracy in the United Kingdom’s Withdrawal from the European Union

Russell Foster