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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040206

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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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 Purse of the Polity. Tax power in the European Union

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

This paper describes the actual constitutional, legislative and collecting tax powers in the hands of the Union. It proceeds first to unpack the very idea of tax power, and to distinguish its elements. On such a basis, I proceed to consider European norms and practices, and to reconstruct on...

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Implementation and European integration: A review essay

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005

research on legitimacy and democracy in Europe. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040230

The European Charter - Between deep Diversity and Constitutional Patriotism?

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the type of allegiance that the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union is based on. Charters as Bills of Rights establish or entrench fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law, and the relevant sense of allegiance and attachment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040231

Who are the experts? The informational basis of EU decision-making

Gornitzka, Åse; Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2008

Who provides the European Union with information? Are these sources of information biased? Who are excluded and who are included? What can the informational bias tell us about decision making in the European Union? The paper examines patterns of participation in the large and organized expert...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040242

Politicisation of European Integration: Bringing the Process into Focus

Wilde, Pieter de - ARENA - 2007

This conceptual paper provides a working definition of politicisation of European integration, based on a literature review. Politicisation has often been used by political scientists interested in European integration. We observe that research using the concept is rarely interested in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040247

Building Europe’s Constitution. The parliamentarization and institutionalization of human rights

Rittberger, Berthold; Schimmelfennig, Frank - ARENA - 2006

to undermine national or other international human rights provisions, the more salient the “legitimacy deficit” of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040257

The rights’ foundations of solidarity: Social and economic rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2003

‘Rights to solidarity’ is a rather new expression, recently minted in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In this chapter, the term will be used to refer to social and economic rights ; the basic question that will be posed is what the Charter has to say about the...

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