This contribution assesses representation in the EU through the lens of demoicracy, focusing on how the demos and the demoi are represented and how this interacts with the executive-legislative balance and party politics. As the Belgian polity is a living case for the EU but often as flawed as the latter when it comes to democratic standards of representation, we examine whether and how reform proposals for the Belgian polity can inspire future reforms at EU level. We demonstrate that the direction demoicracies should head for when strengthening democratic representation should include a balanced representation of the demos and demoi via a bicameral system, a polity-wide constituency to represent the demos, involvement of the legislatives of the constituent units at the encompassing level, and a specific role for polity-wide parties.

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民主国家的代表。比利时联邦制对欧洲未来的贡献

这篇文章通过民主的视角评估了欧盟的代表性，重点关注民众和民众的代表方式，以及这如何与行政立法平衡和政党政治相互作用。由于比利时政体是欧盟的一个活生生的例子，但在民主代表标准方面往往与后者一样存在缺陷，我们研究了比利时政体的改革提案是否以及如何激发欧盟层面的未来改革。我们表明，在加强民主代表制时，民主国家应该走向的方向应该包括通过两院制平衡人民和人民的代表，代表人民的整个政体范围的选区，组成单位的立法机构在包容性层面的参与，以及政治范围内的政党的特定作用。