ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the connection between supranational democracy and European Union (EU) citizenship. There are two ways in which this linkage might be established. The first is normative, concerned with such questions as whether there should be a supranational democracy, Within this normative domain this chapter is concerned with the fundamental problem of identifying a model of democracy in which the ‘people’ are constituted as a self-defining entity The second aspect is an empirical or sociological one, concerned with the characterisation of functioning contemporary European democracies.
