Demokratik yönetişim nosyonu bağlamında AB’nin kurumsal kısıtlarının sosyo-politik analizi

AB, yirminci yüzyılın ikinci yarısının başlarında, altı kurucu devlet arasında, sektörel bir işbirliği olarak başlayan, göz kamaştırıcı bir başarıyla bir ekonomik bütünleşmeye ilerleyen ve yeni üyelerin katılımıyla politik bir birliğe dönüşen uzun bir yolculuğun hikayesidir. İçeriği devasa Avrupa halklarının yönetimi olan konularla baş edebilmek için yeni kurumsal mekanizmalar ve üyeler bu yolculuğa eklemlendi. Ancak bu zaman zarfı içerisinde yapısını ve işleyiş mekanizmasını daima sorgulayan AB, demokratik kurallar ve prosedürlere yakınlaşabilmek için kendini demokratik ve ekonomik olarak geliştirmiş ülkelerle mukayese ederek hep en iyisini arama çabasını sürdürdü. Bu çalışmamız, bu çabayı gerçekleştirme sürecinde AB’nin maruz kaldığı kurumsal problemleri sosyo-politik boyutuyla çözümlemeyi amaçlamaktadır.

The socio-political analysis of EU’s institutional deficit within the notion of democratic governances

The EU began its journey at the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century as a sectoral cooperation between the six founding member states and progressed miraculously by creating an economic union and then a political union with the new members. Throughout the years it has developed with new members and institutional set up in order to cope with the tremendous issues concerning the administration of European people. It has advanced to such an extent that, recently its structure and institutions have been questioned in terms of congruence with democratic rules and procedures; and what is more, this is usually done by comparing the EU with democratically and economically developed states. This article tries to indicate the institutional deficits of EU in achieving the aforementioned aims.

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