Name: The Democratic Illusion of Europe: How Technocratic Power Replaced Popular Sovereignty (en Inglés)
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Author: Duthel, Heinz
ISBN: 9783695757831

portada The Democratic Illusion of Europe: How Technocratic Power Replaced Popular Sovereignty (en Inglés)

The Democratic Illusion of Europe: How Technocratic Power Replaced Popular Sovereignty (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Bod - Books on Demand

Autor

Duthel, Heinz

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

210

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.2 cm

ISBN13

9783695757831

The Democratic Illusion of Europe: How Technocratic Power Replaced Popular Sovereignty (en Inglés)

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This book is a political analysis, documentary, and political thriller examining the gradual transformation of Europe from a community of sovereign democracies into a technocratically governed system increasingly detached from democratic consent. At its core lies a fundamental contrast: American democracy, rooted in popular sovereignty, constitutional limits, and political accountability, versus a European oligarchy whose authority is exercised through unelected institutions, judicial self-empowerment, and economic coercion. Tracing the history of European integration, the author dismantles the myth of inevitable centralization and exposes the structural mechanisms by which national parliaments have been weakened, democratic responsibility diluted, and political power transferred to bodies beyond effective public control. Particular attention is given to the European Commission, the role of supranational courts, and the emergence of what the author terms a democratic illusion: elections without real choice, transparency without accountability, and governance without consent. The book combines political theory, constitutional analysis, and economic critique with contemporary developments, including war financing, debt mechanisms, frozen state assets, lobbying structures, rising political salaries, and the parallel social decline across Europe. Growing homelessness, the collapse of affordable housing, and the widening gap between political elites and ordinary citizens are presented not as isolated failures, but as systemic consequences of a technocratic order insulated from popular pressure. This work is neither anti-European nor anti-American. It defends Europe as a civilization of nations, legal traditions, and democratic self-government, while warning against the creation of a centralized European state that undermines those very foundations. Drawing on the intellectual tradition of Madison, Tocqueville, de Gaulle, and Charles Pasqua, the book argues for politic