Download or read book Foundations of Democracy in the European Union written by J. Pinder and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new approach to the study of European democracy showing how this has developed through key episodes in the long history of the process: precursors in the Low Countries; the founding of British parliamentary then American federal democracy; post-revolutionary France; post-war Germany; the European Parliament. It examines the significance of each episode in the development of national or federal democracy and concludes with a positive assessment of the prospects of liberal democracy. This is an important book for political scientists, historians and others concerned with the development of democracy in Europe and beyond.