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Elements of a sociology of European integration

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2008

How can sociology contribute to the understanding of the social and political transformations that are affecting contemporary Europe? The article proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040309

The EU and the Right to Self-Government

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2003

In this paper, the constitution making process in Europe is assessed with emphasis on incorporating the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Is the Charter a means to reduce the democratic deficit even if it does not fully comply with the notion of people-made law? The EU establishes post-national...

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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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Three conceptions of the European Constitution

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2003

for a conception that determines the legitimacy basis of constitutional norms. This has considerable implications for the … legitimacy. That has not yet been met in the European Union, but it might be attained in forthcoming constitutional moments. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040341

A Polity without a State? European Constitutionalism between Evolution and Revolution

Brunkhorst, Hauke - ARENA - 2003

In this paper the relationship between constitution and state is analysed. The EU's constitutional structure is evaluated according to three ideas of constitutionalism: the evolutionary or functionalist idea; the power-binding idea; and the power-establishing or revolutionary idea. It is found that...

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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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The Constitution’s Gift? A deliberative democratic analysis of constitution-making in the European Union

Fossum, John Erik; Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

implications for its democratic legitimacy. In light of recent events, we consider how procedural changes in constitution … step, we consider what contribution constitution-making might make to the handling of the EU’s legitimacy deficit(s). This …

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How the enlargement challenges the institutions - or the existence - of the European Economic Area

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005

could make the legitimacy and the fulfillment of the principal aims of the EEA more difficult. First, I argue that 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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