Party Democracy in the EU: crisis and consequences

The aim of this course is to improve the knowledge of students on the symptoms of the crisis of party democracy in the EU, its causes and consequences. The purpose is to understand a) The key challenges to the EU in the twenty-first century: populism,
technocracy, anti-system politics, emergency politics etc.; b) The comparative
perspectives of the crises in Western and Eastern societies c) The theoretical
approaches for studying the crises of party democracy and its implications for the
democratic representation in EU and the EU democratic legitimacy.