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De-configuring the European Union: A comparative approach
Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2004
This article discusses the question of the EU's uniqueness. This issue is of particular importance when considered in relation to the nation-state. Uniqueness can then be considered as a case of departure from or transformation of the nation-state. The EU has emerged with a complex mixture of...
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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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Legitimacy Theories of the European Union
Føllesdal, Andreas - ARENA - 2004
"permissive consensus" by the public. The popular and legal challenges to the Maastricht Treaty questioned the legitimacy of … further integration.Normative political theory has responded to this legitimacy crisis by means of normative reasoning … of conceptions, mechanisms and objects of legitimacy. Section 4 presents a unifying perspective that may accommodate many …
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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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