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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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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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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 …

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In Search of the European Public Sphere: Between Normative Overstrech and Empirical Disenchantment

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - RECON - 2008

which should be used to assess the legitimacy of European integration. In descriptive terms, the European public sphere is …

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The European democratic challenge

Menéndez, Agustín José - RECON - 2007

In this paper, I explore in a systematic manner the different components of the democratic legitimacy of the Union from … constitutional traditions of the member states, which lend democratic legitimacy to the whole European legal order. On the other hand …

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Measuring Europeanisation of public communication: The question of standards

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - RECON - 2007

The emergence of a pan-European public sphere as a correlate of democratic governance in the EU is held to be difficult, if not impossible. This has shifted the research agenda to the Europeanisation of public and media communication. The European public sphere light is observed by measuring...

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Denouncing European integration: Euroscepticism as reactive identity formation

Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Wilde, Pieter de - RECON - 2009

The spreading phenomenon of Euroscepticism relates to particular discursive formations within the battlefield of collective identities that is opened by European integration. This paper first aims to highlight the reactionary nature of Euroscepticism. Secondly, it argues for understanding...

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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...

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Enchancing the democratic legitimacy of EU governance? The impact of online public consultations in energy policy-making

Primova, Radostina - RECON - 2011

. The present study seeks to explore the role of online public consultations in enhancing democratic legitimacy at the … legitimacy and discusses the role of civil society as a cure for the democratic deficit of European policy-making. Second, it …

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