Prilog raspravi o prirodi političkog sistema EU: Evropska unija kao konsenzus demokratija. (Bosnian)

CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEBATE ON THE NATURE OF THE EU POLITICAL SYSTEM: THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A CONSENSUS DEMOCRACY. (English)

The paper examines the nature of the European Union as a consensus-based political system using Arend Lijphart's theoretical model. The author claims that on Lijphart's scale between majority and consensus democracy, the European Union is closer to the latter. As a complex, hybrid, unfinished political community, the European Union has been studied within different disciplines (international relations, law and studies of international organizations, political science, sociology...) and different theoretical approaches (rationalist, constructivist, realist, (neo)functionalist...). They explained its nature in different ways and described different aspects of its action. Once it got rid of the insufficient framework of an international entity/organization, and when it became clear that the EU could be seen as a political system, the question of democracy within it was also opened. The proposals for solving the observed democratic deficit were different but mostly based on the nation-state experiences of democracy, including the majority/Westminster democracies. In contrast and taking into account all the specificities of the European Union, the author first analyses in detail and applies all the elements of Lijphart's model of consensus democracy to the EU. The text explains why this understanding of the EU is superior to competing approaches, not only for assessing the real size of the democratic deficit but also for possible recipes for overcoming it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

U radu se razmatra priroda Evropske unije kao političkog sistema konsenzualnog tipa koristeći se teorijskim modelom Arenda Lajpharta (Arendt Lijphart). Autorka tvrdi da je na Lajphartovoj skali između većinske i konsenzus demokratije Evropska unija bliža ovoj drugoj. Kao složena, hibridna, nedovršena politička zajednica, Evropska unija se izučavala unutar različitih disciplina (međunarodnih odnosa, prava i studija međunarodnih organizacija, političkih nauka, sociologije...) i različitih teorijskih pristupa (racionalističkog, konstruktivističkog, realističkog, (neo)funkcionalističkog...). Oni su na različite načine objašnjavali njenu prirodu i opisivali različite aspekte njenog delovanja. Jednom kada je izašla iz nedovoljnog okvira međunarodne tvorevine ili organizacije, i kada je postalo jasno da se EU može posmatrati kao politički sistem, otvoreno je i pitanje demokratije unutar njega. Predlozi za rešavanje primećenog demokratskog deficita bili su različiti, ali mahom po ugledu na demokratije u nacionalnim državama, pa i one većinske/vestminsterske. Nasuprot tome, i uzimajući u obzir sve specifičnosti Evropske unije, autorka najpre detaljno analizira i primenjuje sve elemente Lajphartovog modela konsenzualne demokratije na EU. U tekstu se objašnjava zašto je ovakvo razumevanje EU superiorno u odnosu na konkurentske pristupe ne samo za ocenu stvarne veličine demokratskog deficita, nego i za moguće recepte za njegovo prevazilaženje. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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