Auditing democracy in the European Union’s Member States: A framework for analysis

This paper proposes to present a framework for the auditing of democratic situations in the European Union's Member States, thus trying to understand what definition of democracy the European Union uses. To do this, it will be divided into two parts. First, it will debate a method for the audit of democracies. Secondly, it will propose a model of western European democracy based on Ordo-Liberalism, which will be the basis for an evaluation of national democracies. The paper tries to offer, therefore, a framework to address the questions concerning different levels and understandings of democracy in European Union Member States by proposing a method and a model for the audit of European democratic systems.

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