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Designing Politicization. How control mechanisms in national parliaments affect parliamentary debates in EU policy-formulation

Wilde, Pieter de - ARENA - 2009

This paper asks how ex ante and ex post control mechanisms structuring the involvement of national parliaments in EU policy-formulation affect the size and scope of conflict of parliamentary debates. The direct and indirect effects of control mechanisms are assessed in a comparative case study...

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In search of popular subjectness

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2009

demos of a European democracy. Against the common view that holds the self-identified political community as prior and … independent of constitutional designing, it is claimed that democracy rather operates through the identification of popular …

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Enlightened Decision Making. The Role of Scientists in EU Governance

Gornitzka, Åse; Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2010

A key feature of democratic political systems is their ability to collect, generate and disseminate information and thereby to improve policies and practices. Multi-lateral institutions in general, and the European Union in particular, are often seen as decision making systems where technocratic...

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Norway's European conundrum

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2008

of incorporation that poses serious challenges to Norwegian democracy. In the concluding section the democratic …

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2009 European Parliamentary Elections on the Web. A mediatization perspective

Michailidou, Asimina; Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2010

This paper evaluates the mediatizing potential of the internet on the politics of European integration and the process of enhancing the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU), i.e. the ways in which online media participate or interfere with the democratization of the EU by either...

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European Transformation. A pragmatist approach

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2010

consequences. The effect is more legal regulation, which triggers claims to democracy. The integration process is to a large degree …

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Bringing European Democracy Back In. Or how to read the German Constitutional Court's Lisbon Treaty ruling

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2010

Treaty ruling. This is needed because the ruling is ambiguous with regard to what democracy for what Union. In order to … analyse the ruling we establish three models of what European democracy possibly can amount to: Audit democracy based on the …’s argumentation does not lend support to this notion. The Court models democracy on a rather specific set of institutional …

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Martha Nussbaum's Outcome-oriented Theory of Justice. Philosophical comments

Holst, Cathrine - ARENA - 2010

The capability approach developed by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen has received substantial attention in recent years, in philosophical exchanges as well as in more applied discussions on policy-making, in particular in developing countries, but lately also in Western countries, including...

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Deliberation under conditions of language pluralism. Insight from the Europolis Deliberative Polling Experiment

Irena Fiket, Espen D. H. Olsen, Hans-Jörg Trenz - ARENA - 2011

Parliamentary elections. The European deliberative poll is an ideal case for testing the viability of deliberative democracy across … thereby turning a heterogeneous group of randomly selected group into a constituency of democracy. …

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Equal Pay and Dilemmas of Justice

Holst, Cathrine - ARENA - 2012

Equal pay for work of equal value is a fundamental principle in European Union (EU) law and so in the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. The paper takes as its point of departure the debate in Norway on the interpretation of EEA equal pay legislation, and relates this debate to the broader...

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