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Explicating social action: arguing or bargaining

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2009

Jon Elster has a clear view of the role of norms and impartiality in collective decision making processes, but does not ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how can private desires be the causes of the same...

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Coming to terms with the ‘legitimacy crisis’ of European foreign politics: The European Parliament pushing the frontiers of consultation

Wisniewski, Elisabeth - RECON - 2011

. However, the emerging Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) has been criticized for its lack of democratic legitimacy … European Union (EU) to enhance legitimacy or is this process a result of inter-institutional dynamics? Are these mechanisms …

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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 …

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Contesting EU Legitimacy: The Prominence, Content and Justification of Euroscepticism During 2009 EP Election Campaigns

Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - RECON - 2010

This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

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Data Mining and ‘Renegade’ Aircrafts: The States as Agents of a Global Militant Security Governance Network — The German Example

Nickel, Rainer - RECON - 2010

Security governance has changed the way societies organise and control the execution of powers. This contribution will focus on the ’German’ approach, and, inevitably these days, also on the EU approach towards new threats to security, especially with regard to terrorism. The main argument...

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Mair, Peter - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2005

depoliticization. As the experience of the EU suggests, the combination of popular democracy and legitimacy is proving increasingly …

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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-...

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Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik

Follesdal, Andreas; Hix, Simon - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2005

In a series of recent papers, Giandomenico Majone and Andrew Moravcsik have ‘raised the bar’ in the debate over the so-called ‘democratic deficit’ in the European Union. These two influential scholars both contend that much of the existing analysis is flawed and that the EU is as...

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Adversary or ‘depoliticized’ institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention

Hüller, Thorsten - RECON - 2007

legitimacy-trap. An elected convention would probably be more democratic, because such an institution would be more public as …

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European Identity Formation in the Public Sphere and in Foreign Policy

Risse, Thomas; Grabowsky, Jana Katharina - RECON - 2008

While in political debates identity is often considered as given, scholars of social sciences concentrate on the formation of new and particularly transnational identities. Insights from nationalism reveal mechanisms of identity formation but European integration has taken its own way. We...

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