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Author(s): Sergio Fabbrini
ISBN(s): 9780199235612, 0199235619
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Year: 2008
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ISBN 10: 0199235619 
ISBN 13: 9780199235612
Author: Sergio Fabbrini

This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyse the two systems it draws some challenging conclusions about their increasing similarity. Professor Fabbrini argues that the process of regional integration in Europe over the last 60 years, has significantly reduced the historical differences between the democracies on either side of the Atlantic. The EU and the US are now similar because they represent two different species of the same political genus: the compound democracy. The defining feature of compound democracy is the union of states and their citizens. Through such union, the states agree to pool their sovereignty within a larger integrated supra-state or supranational framework. They do so because these unions are primarily pacts for avoiding war. Because the states which made those unions were, and continue to be, asymmetrically correlated, any attempt to create a unified polity – that is a political system where the decision-making power is monopolized by only one institution – is likely to fail. He goes on to argue that the US and the EU are based on a multiple diffusion of powers which guarantees that any interest can have a voice in the decision-making process and no majority will be able to control all the institutional levels of the polity. This type of system allows an inter-states organization to operate as a supra-state polity – but it does so at the expense of decision-making capacity and accountability.

Compound Democracies Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Democratic Transformations in Europe and America

1.1. The Argument
1.2. Europe toward Compoundness
1.3. American Compoundness and Its Challenges
1.4. Comparing American and European Compoundness
1.5. About the Book

Part I. Transatlantic Democracies: The Era of Institutional Divergence

2. Differentiation in Authority Structures: State, Nation, and Democracy in Europe and America
2.1. Introduction
2.2. State and Nation in Europe: The Rokkanian Approach
2.3. Rokkan in Washington, DC: State and Nation in America
2.4. Democracy-Building in Europe and America
2.5. Conclusion

3. Institutionalization of Different Governmental Patterns: Separation and Fusion of Powers in America and Europe
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The Logic of Separation and Fusion of Governmental Powers
3.3. The Institutionalization of the American Separated System
3.4. The Institutionalization of European Fusion of Powers Systems
3.5. Conclusion

4. Alternative Paths to a Modern Social Order: Territoriality, Market, and Welfare in America and Europe
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Territorial Organization of Power in America and Europe
4.3. Territoriality and Market-Building in America and Europe
4.4. Different Welfare Systems in America and Europe
4.5. Conclusion

5. Different Structuring of Partisan Politics in America and Europe: The Role of Parties in the Political Process
5.1. Introduction
5.2. The Structuring of Partisan Politics in America and Europe
5.3. Parties and Separated Government in America
5.4. Parties and Government in the Post–World War II Europe
5.5. American Parties between Decline and Transformation
5.6. Conclusion

Part II. Transatlantic Democracies: The Era of Institutional Convergence

6. American Compound Democracy and Its Challenges: The Domestic Implications of Global Power
6.1. Introduction
6.2. America as Compound Democracy: Justifications and Implications
6.3. Political Transformation in America: The President in the Cold War Era
6.4. Presidential Power in the Era of Divided Government
6.5. September 11: Rise and Fall of Presidential Power
6.6. Conclusion

7. Structural Transformation of European Politics: The Growth of the Supranational European Union
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The Growth of European Supranationalism
7.3. The Institutional Structure of the EU
7.4. The Judicial Order of Supranational EU
7.5. Supranational EU as Democratic Polity
7.6. Conclusion

8. Compound Democracy in America and Europe: Comparing the USA and the EU
8.1. Introduction
8.2. EU Exceptionalism and Beyond
8.3. Comparing the US and the EU Institutional Structure
8.4. The Political Process in Compound and Noncompound Democracies
8.5. Compoundness and Foreign Policy in the USA and the EU
8.6. Political Stability and Political Institutions: What Lessons from America?
8.7. Conclusion

9. The Constitutionalization of the US and the EU Compound Democracies
9.1. Introduction
9.2. US Constitutionalism from a Comparative Perspective
9.3. Constitutionalism in the EU: Toward a Supranational Constitution
9.4. Has the Brussels Convention Challenged the EU Compound Nature?
9.5. Constitutionalization as a Contested Process
9.6. Constitutionalization as Democratization
9.7. Conclusion

10. Conclusion: The Puzzle of Compound Democracy: A Comparative Perspective

10.1. Introduction
10.2. Decision-making Patterns in Compound and Noncompound Democracies
10.3. Crisis Management in the USA and European Nation-States
10.4. Accountability Patterns in Compound and Noncompound Democracies
10.5. Conclusion

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