The Emergence of the Concept of Politicisation in the Intellectual Discourses of European Integration

What means "politicization" in the context of European integration? The failure of draft constitutional treaty launched a series of debates about the nature of the European polity. These debates centered around such concepts as "democratic deficit", "civic participation", "European citizenship", "deliberative democracy", "electoral democracy", "mixed constitution" as well as "politicization". These concepts covered most of the modern democratic political theory and some of them reintroduced some old theories of classical political theory. But as the time went on, the great recession of 2008 and the eurozone crisis of 2009 made most of these ideas somewhat outdated and turned the attention to the concept of "politicization". This is why we could and should examine the umbrella of the key concept of "politicization". We need a synchronic depiction the discourses of European integration first, and, then, we should contrast it with a diachronic narrative about the history of the concept of conceptualization.