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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Introduction Asymmetry and the problem of dominance
• A danger of hegemonic dominance
• Democratic constitutionalism
• The European challenge
• Forms of association
• Multilateralism: The EEA Agreement
• Sectorial bilateralism: Switzerland
• The contents of the book
• Notes
• References
• I Forms of association without membership
• 2 The European Union’s Different Neighbourhood Models
• Introduction: The neighbours’ stake in the internal market
• Neighbourhood models of deep economic integration
• The EEA: Broad, multilateral, dynamic two-pillar model
• EU–Switzerland: Broad, bilateral, static, sectoral model
• EU–Turkey: Narrow, bilateral, partly dynamic customs union model
• The European small-sized countries: Narrow, bilateral, static absorption model
• The ENP: Narrow, bilateral, static hub-and-spoke model
• The Energy Community Treaty: Narrow, partly dynamic, sectoral multilateralism
• Challenges faced by the neighbourhood models
• Conclusion: No stake in decision-making?
• Notes
• References
• 3 The Swiss Way The nature of Switzerland’s relationship with the EU
• The origins of Swiss–EU bilateralism
• The legal scope of Swiss–EU bilateralism
• The bilateral agreements
• The legal nature of obligations
• The organisational scope of Swiss–EU bilateralism
• Political design versus bottom-up functionalism
• The end of the Swiss Sonderweg?
• Renovation of the bilateral way: Progress and setbacks
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 4 Switzerland Bilateralism’s polarising consequences in a very particular/ist democracy
• Swiss democracy
• Switzerland’s form of European Integration
• Swiss sovereignty and the selective stance against domination
• Switzerland’s selective stance towards external sources of domination
• The Swiss form of political accountability between republicanism and regional integration
• Holding Swiss rulers accountable: From trustees to traitors?
• Deliberative accountability within a popular democracy: From inclusiveness and pragmatism back to exclusiveness and populism?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• II Welcomed, inside, but still unwilling Two EEA Countries Assessed
• 5 Despoiling Norwegian Democracy1
• Democracy and congruence
• Citizens’ self-rule
• Law and democracy
• State or popular sovereignty?
• Self-inflicted harm to democratic procedure
• Greater system effectiveness
• Homogeneity and dynamics
• An indigent contract
• Hegemony by default
• Rule without justification
• Cosmopolitanisation of nation states
• Juridical supranationalism
• The right to co-determination
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 6 The EEA and the Case Law of the CJEU Incorporation without participation?
• The origins of the complex judicial architecture of the EEA
• The core of the problem: Independence vs homogeneity
• The EFTA Court’s approach
• The approach of the national courts of the EFTA states
• Influencing the CJEU’s development of the common rules for the internal market?
• What if Switzerland and the UK were to join to the EFTA pillar of the EEA?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 7 Iceland A reluctant European
• Background
• Constitutional implications
• Side-lining the parliament
• Passive integration
• Does size matter?
• Administrative capacity: Opportunities and challenges
• Challenging political patronage
• The legacy of the US hegemony
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 8 Norway’s Constitutional Acrobatics under the EEA Agreement
• The EEA Agreement’s promise of sovereignty
• Law in books: What does the constitution say?
• Formal and substantive transfers of sovereignty
• The necessity of a specific procedure for formal transfers of sovereignty
• Law in action: Current Norwegian practice for transfers of sovereignty
• Legal basis for the current practice
• Problems with the current practice
• Why all the constitutional acrobatics under the EEA Agreement?
• Notes
• References
• 9 Representation under Hegemony? On Norway’s relationship to the EU
• Norway’s representation and presence in the EU
• Virtual representation
• Surrogate representation
• Contending conceptions of sovereignty and constitutional implications
• Internal workings of Norwegian representative democracy
• Executive dominance
• Inadequate parliamentary oversight and control
• Stymied elections and ‘gagged’ parties?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 10 National Administrative Sovereignty Under pressure
• Theoretical discussion of multilevel administration
• Empirical observations
• 1 Capacity building in the EU’s executive
• Growth in the European Commission
• The growth of EU agencies
• 2 National agencies with a certain amount of independence from ministries
• 3 National administrative sovereignty under pressure
• Administrative sovereignty in administrative policy
• Conclusion
• Note
• References
• 11 Reinforcing Executive Dominance Norway and the EU’s foreign and security policy
• Autonomy and accountability in Norwegian foreign and security policy
• Norway and EU foreign and security policy
• Insignificant legal agreements of particular political importance?
• Adverse effects on state sovereignty?
• Prioritising action capacity
• In line with tradition?
• A continuation of alliance policy?
• Policy based on consensus?
• A legitimate need to ensure action capacity?
• Paradoxes in foreign policy
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• III Sovereignty under hegemony
• 12 The United Kingdom, a Once and Future(?) Non-Member State
• Four futures?
• Completely in
• In but not completely in
• Out but not completely out
• Completely out
• 1950–1952: With but not of
• Sovereignty
• International actor
• Political economy and domestic politics
• When in, not completely in
• Sovereignty
• International power
• Political economy
• Domestic politics
• Ways of being a non-member (again)
• Sovereignty
• International power
• Political economy
• Domestic politics
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 13 Hegemony by Association
• Differentiated integration and democratic self-rule
• Many forms of association amidst strong gravitational pulls
• The sovereign democrats
• Brexit and a new category of ex-member state
• Independency under hegemony
• Note
• Index