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The dynamics of legitimation - Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism
Gaus, Daniel - RECON - 2011
The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on … political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical … approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on societal constellations of citizens’ beliefs. The dynamic character of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644125
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On the politicization of the European consociation: A middle way between Hix and Bartolini
Magnette, Paul; Papadopoulos, Yannis - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2008
A debate has emerged between S. Hix and S. Bartolini on the plausibility and desirability of the politicization of the EU. By this it is usually meant a more important role for mass, competitive, and partisan politics both on the input- (expression of preferences) and on the output-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040474
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Decision-making void of democratic qualities?An evaluation of the EU’s foreign and security policy
Stie, Anne Elizabeth - RECON - 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/10005040516
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Representation through Deliberation: The European Case
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019533
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Nothing but consultation: The place of organised civil society in EU policy-making across policies
Kröger, Sandra - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2008
legitimacy. With regard to the EU, participation of civil society organisations are officially seen as a means of bridging the … legitimacy of the EU and is instrumental to institutional power games of the European Commission and the European Parliament …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005553212