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European Transformation. A pragmatist approach

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2010

Europe has been transformed from an order of largely independent nation-states to an integrated order with some capacity to rule in the name of all. The European integration process has resulted in a set of institutions premised on a complex mixture of supranational, transnational and...

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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...

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Representation through deliberation. The European case

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011

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Decision-Making Void of Democratic Qualities? An Evaluation of the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy

Stie, Anne Elizabeth - ARENA - 2008

-making processes as it is not only the quality of the outcomes that determine the democratic legitimacy of policy-making, but also the …

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Europe in Search of its Legitimacy - Assessing Strategies of Legitimation

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2002

How can the EU rectify its legitimacy deficit? On the basis of three logics of political integration we identify … explicit strategies for how the legitimacy deficit of the EU can be remedied. The first strategy amounts to a scaling down of … purpose organisation. Here the EU’s own legitimacy is held to be dependent on its performance and on the legitimacy of the …

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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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Conceptualising the EU's social constituency

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2004

The EU is often labelled a unique entity. This assertion is more the product of assessments of its institutional character than on the nature of its social constituency, i.e. the structure of demands and expectations that citizens and groups place on the EU. Determining the character of the...

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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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