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Digital media and the return of the representative public sphere

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2009

This article analyses how digital media redefine the boundaries of the political public sphere. Against the mainstream assumption of a new emancipatory potential of the digital media, which strengthens the participatory and interactive elements of the public sphere, it is argued that digital...

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Language Minorities in Europe: Dying species or forerunner of a transnational civil society?

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2005

Language minorities can be found as evidence of unfinished nation-building in relatively closed territorial settlements all over contemporary Europe. From a comparative perspective, different paths of accommodating linguistic diversity can be followed resulting in very dissimilar regimes of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040311

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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