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European governance still technocratic? New modes of governance for food safety regulation in the European Union
Fischer, Robert - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 12
This article contributes to the debate on technocratic governance in the European Union. It examines the relationship between scientific expertise and policy-making in the foodstuffs sector and scrutinises the hypothesis that the European Commission follows a technocratic model in the food...
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'Deliberative Supranationalism' A Defence
Joerges, Christian - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 07
This paper is essentially a translation of a comment in German (Joerges 2000) on a series of articles in which Rainer Schmalz-Bruns (1998, 1999a, 1999b) developed a concept of legitimate governance beyond the constitutional state, which he called deliberative supra-nationalism and contrasted...
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A new concept of deepening European integration? The European Research Area and the emerging role of policy coordination in a multi-level governance system
Kaiser, Robert; Prange, Heiko - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 10
Within the discussion on European governance and constitutional reforms of the EU polity the so-called "open method of coordination" (OMC) has gained much attention as a procedure that occupies an intermediary place between intergovernmental cooperation and supranational legislation. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040558
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Taming the ‘Trojan Horse’ of Comitology? Accountability issues of Comitology and the Role of the European Parliament
Neuhold, Christine - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04
The European Commission plays a major role as regulator in the process of implementation of European legislation. Just looking at the figures of implementing measures one will find that the Commission adopts more than 2.500 such legal acts per year. As is well known the Commission is not alone...
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The European Parliaments Political Legitimacy and the Commissions Misleading Management: Towards a Parliamentarian European Union?
Muntean, Andrei M. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 05
This paper studies the basic characteristics of the political legitimacy of the European Parliament (EP) within the … supranational political system of the European Union (EU) and argues that an increase in the political legitimacy of the EP might … provide a solution to the legitimacy problem at the EU level of supranational governance. The case study of misleading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969209
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Legitimacy Dilemmas of Supranational Governance: The European Commission between Accountability and Independence
Christiansen, Thomas - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 1997
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Representation through deliberation. The European case
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011
This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound. But the multilevel EU has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862201
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A New Kind of Legitimacy for a New Kind of Parliament The Evolution of the European Parliament
Wessels, Wolfgang; Diedrichs, Udo - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 04
The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040556
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Representation through deliberation. The European case
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011
This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound. But the multilevel EU has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734493
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Representation through Deliberation: The European Case
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2011
This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound. But the multilevel EU has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019533