Open AccessFrom hidden federalism to hidden hegemonism
Author(s) -
Slobodan Samardžić
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo1802053s
Subject(s) - federalism , hegemony , technocracy , argument (complex analysis) , political science , politics , corporate governance , law and economics , political economy , sociology , public administration , law , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , finance
Bojan Kovacevic?s book serves as a starting point for considering the major topic, which is the crisis of the EU?s prevailing model of governance. The author?s argument about ?hidden federalism? constitutes a solid ground for fruitful theoretic discussion. The author?s approach explains a long lasting and well established project of integration that has developed within the framework of elitist and technocratic model of public affairs governing. By accepting this perspective in this paper the EU crisis is conceptualized as a process that leads from ?hidden federalism? to ?hidden hegemonism? as a constitutional outcome of concrete anti-crisis politics.