The Role of Voice in a Future Europe.
The planned unification of twelve European states to an economic and political unit will create new negative incentives for political protest ('voice'). This paper argues that the costs of voice will increase and the positive incentives will decrease if Europe's unification proceeds. The argument is based on a model specifying the major incentives for voice that have been confirmed by previous research. In the final part of the paper, a normative question is discussed: Should voice be subsidized? The argument that increasing the likelihood of voice may reduce a democracy deficit of the European Community is refuted. Copyright 1994 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG
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1994
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Authors: | Opp, Karl-Dieter |
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Kyklos. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0023-5962. - Vol. 47.1994, 3, p. 385-402
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Wiley Blackwell |
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