Francis Cheneval is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Sandra Lavenex is Professor of International Relations at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Whereas 'democracy' assumes a single demos or people, 'demoi-cracy' refers to democratic government and governance in a polity constituted by separate peoples. Since the European Union consists of many demoi with different collective identities, largely separate public spheres, and a predominantly national political infrastructure, demoi-cracy is an appropriate standard for the analysis and evaluation of democracy in the EU. This volume brings together analyses of a broad range of institutions and policies of the EU from the perspective of demoi-cracy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

1. Demoi-cracy in the European Union: Principles, Institutions, Policies 2. Demoi-cratic citizenship in Europe: an impossible ideal? 3. Stuck on the Rubicon? The Resonance of the Idea of Demoi-cracy in Media Debates on EU Legitimacy 4. Union Citizenship as a Demoi-cratic Institution: Increasing the EU's Subjective Legitimacy through Supranational Citizenship? 5. Parliamentary Co-Evolution: National Parliamentary Reactions to the Empowerment of the European Parliament 6. European Union Agencies and their Management Boards: an Assessment of Accountability and Demoi-cratic Legitimacy 7. Squaring the Circle with Mutual Recognition? Demoi-cratic Governance in Practice 8. Open Method of Coordination for Demoi-cracy? Standards and Purposes 9. Epilogue: The Challenge of European Demoi-cratization