European Integration and Democracy is a double peer-reviewed book series dedicated to the analysis of the challenges to democracy posed by the process of European integration, using interdisciplinary (law, history, political science, etc.) and comparative perspectives. Each volume in the series is usually devoted to a single aspect of these challenges. The intended readership includes policy makers, legal practitioners, academics and advanced students interested in a critical analysis of the interaction between the European integration and the concept of democracy.
The series was launched in 2012 and is managed by the Centre for Direct Democracy Studies (CDDS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Białystok, Poland. The Centre is devoted to analytical, theoretical, prospective and comparative research on direct democracy, democratic deficit and the role of direct democracy in regional integration. Intersentia became the series’ publisher in 2014.
Editors-in-Chief: Elżbieta Kużelewska (University of Białystok, Poland) and Dariusz Kloza (University of Ghent, Belgium).
Editorial board: Daniel Barnhizer (Michigan State University, United States of America), Tomas Berkmanas (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania), Filip Křepelka (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), Erich Schweighofer (University of Vienna, Austria), Ryszard Skarzyński (University of Białystok, Poland) and Konstanty A. Wojtaszczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland).
The first two volumes in the series were published by Aspra-JR and can be downloaded in open access (click on the title):
- Kużelewska Elżbieta and Kloza Dariusz (eds.) (2012) The Challenges of Modern Democracy and European Integration. European Integration and Democracy Series, Vol. 1, Aspra, Warszawa, 249 pp.
- Kużelewska Elżbieta and Kloza Dariusz (eds.) (2013) Elections to the European Parliament as a Challenge for Democracy. European Integration and Democracy Series, Vol. 2, Aspra, Warszawa, 372 pp.