ABSTRACT

We draw innovatively on new and existing public opinion survey data carried out across North African countries since 2011 to provide a ‘view from below’ of the type of democracy that citizens of North African countries want and compare this conception with the type of democracy the European Union (EU) ‘offers’ its counterparts in the ‘Southern Neighbourhood’. This comparison shows there is a mismatch between what citizens want and what the EU is offering. While citizens want a ‘thicker’, socially just democracy, the EU ‘offers’ a market democracy that prioritises a limited number of civil and political rights. Social and economic rights are discursively constructed as macroeconomic issues relevant to the stability and consolidation of democracy rather than human rights as integral to democracy as their civil–political counterparts.

摘要

我们创新性地利用了自 2011 年以来在北非国家开展的新的和现有的民意调查数据，以提供北非国家公民想要的民主类型的“自下而上的观点”，并将这一概念与欧洲的民主类型进行比较联盟（欧盟）“提供”其在“南部社区”的同行。这种比较表明，公民想要的东西与欧盟提供的东西之间存在不匹配。虽然公民想要一个“更厚实”、社会公正的民主，但欧盟“提供”一种市场民主，优先考虑有限的公民和政治权利。社会和经济权利在话语上被构建为与民主的稳定和巩固相关的宏观经济问题，而不是与公民政治对应物一样对民主不可或缺的人权。