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The EU’s fledgling society: From deafening silence to critical voice in European constitution making

Fossum, John Erik; Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2005

The European Union is presently at a major crossroads. The Laeken process which launched the EU onto an explicit constitution-making process, has ground to a halt after the negative referendum results in France and the Netherlands. The European Council at its 16-17 June 2005 meeting decided to...

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Coping with Conflict at Constitutional Moments

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2002

It is a commonplace to argue that democracies require constitutional rules in order to function well; in particular, such rules facilitate conflict resolution and secure a civilized co-existence. Democratic governance signifies an ability to purposefully shape political and social life;...

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Change and continuity: An institutional approach to institutions of democratic government

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008

, some future challenges are suggested. This article has later been published in European Political Science Review (2009), 1 …

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Deliberation and the problem of democratic legitimacy in the EU: Are working agreements the most that can be expected?

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2006

-national legitimacy? The author contends that democracy can only prevail with egalitarian procedures of law making in place through which … discourse modelled on a less demanding concept of democratic legitimacy. The concept of a working agreement is introduced in … order to establish such concept legitimacy as well as to account for the constitutional developments of the EU. …

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Neither Constitution, Nor Treaty

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

The Constitutional Treaty of the European Union cannot be said to be a Constitution in the same sense that the term is generally used in most European countries. It is not a Constitution in the same sense that the German, Italian or Czech constitutions. This is mainly so because neither the...

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Reflexive Integration in Europe

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004

Integration may occur through coercion and intergovernmental bargaining - through blackmail, tradition, functional adaptation, copying, diffusion or exit - but it may also occur through reflexive reason-giving and entrenched commitments. The usefulness of such an approach to transnational and...

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