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Regional federalisation with a cosmopolitan intent
Mikalsen, Kjartan Koch - RECON - 2009
This paper deals with the issue of institutionalising a legal pacifistic international order. While Kant’s idea of perpetual peace serves as the point of departure, it is argued that in order to find a proper institutional arrangement one would have to look beyond the two notions found in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040502
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Deliberating CFSP: European Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court
Deitelhoff, Nicole - RECON - 2008
for international governance and the beginning of a new era in international law. It is the first permanent institution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040511
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Old wine in new bottles? The actual and potential contribution of civil society organisations to democratic governance in Europe
Friedrich, Dawid - RECON - 2007
democratic quality of policy-making in international governance arrangements. However, it remains unclear under what conditions … consultation with civil society organisations and above all the White Paper on European Governance have triggered some scientific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040535
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Democratic Boundaries in the US and Europe. Inequality, Localisation and Voluntarism in Social Welfare Provsion
Altman, Tess; Mayes, David G. - RECON - 2011
Our aim in this paper is to explore three related trends which have emerged in recent years that are contributing to important changes in the way both social welfare and democratic decision making over its form and content interact. These trends are: growing inequality, an increasing devolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145187
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Constitutionalism beyond the state: myth or necessity?
Cohen, Jean L. - RECON - 2010
Constitutionalism beyond the state is a deeply contested project. The emergence of global governance and global laws … production of international or global law. Thus questions about the legitimacy of global law and governance arise particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645015
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The quality of democracy in the Czech Republic
Mansfeldová, Zdenka; Guasti, Petra Rakušanová - RECON - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680865
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Social Welfare and Democracy in Europe: What Role for the Private and Voluntary Sectors?
Altman, Tess; Shore, Cris - RECON - 2010
This paper explores the role of the private and voluntary sectors in helping to fill gaps in public sector social welfare provision and considers the extent to which this augments or weakens the democratic process. While the public sector has tended to be the major provider in European social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684788
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How does external debt impact democratization? Evidence from developing countries
Combes, Jean-Louis; OUEDRAOGO, Rasmané - HAL - 2014
In this paper we empirically discuss whether or not external debt affects country's governance. Indeed, indebted … countries need some political governance reforms in order to send out a positive signal to international financial community and … costs to political governance. Our study focuses on the period 1985-2011 and spans 103 developing countries. To deal with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899443