Author: Yves Mény | Journal of Democracy

Yves Mény is president of the European University Institute in San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy. He is the author or editor of numerous books on West European politics. His publications include Par le peuple, pour le people: Le populisme et les démocraties (with Y. Surel, 2000) and Democracies and the Populist Challenge (coedited with Y. Surel, 2002).

October 2003, Volume 14, Issue 4

Making Sense of the EU: The Achievements of the Convention

Yves Mény

Building democracy at the supernational level is an unprecedented task, but so once was building democracy at the level of the modern state. And the progress of the EU in the last half-century has been remarkable.