TY - BOOK AU - Gaudot,Édouard TI - Rousseau versus Montesquieu: The slow progression of European democracy PY - 2022///. N1 - 86 N2 - What forms could a democratic regime take on the scale of the European Union? Beyond all the technocrats and populists talking past each other about the democratization of the EU, a question remains: what is the political legitimacy of the European venture? In contradistinction to the imaginary Rousseauian world that dominates our national democracies, Europe would need instead to be consolidated as a transnational democracy of continental scope, based on the construction of a European society and a common “spirit of law.” UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-hermes-la-revue-2022-2-page-27?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -