Publisher's Synopsis
This volume presents a comprehensive critique of European constitutionalism. The book adopts a holistic perspective in its analysis of the problematic areas of EU constitutionalism, bringing together both procedural and substantive aspects of the EU constitutional order. The argument put forward here is that EU constitutionalism has been marked by a substitution of juridification for politicisation and that the legal outcome of this juridification has enshrined the exigencies of the market within its deepest structure. The author argues that this double substitution of the legal for the political and of the economic for the legal has negative implications both on the level of normative coherence and on the level of political representation. This subordination of politics to market orthodoxy has resulted in the replacement of deliberative governance by a commodification of the political process. The author utilizes deconstructivist methodology to put forward alternative approaches.
