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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040501
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Assessing democratic legitimacy from a deliberative perspective: An analytical framework for evaluating the EU’s second pillar decision-making system
Stie, Anne Elizabeth - RECON - 2007
In this article, I outline an analytical framework allowing for an assessment of the democratic legitimacy of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040519
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On Political Representation: Myths and Challenges
Johannes Pollak, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre, Emmanuel … - RECON - 2009
In this paper we critically reassess the standard account of political representation, in order to question the mythical foundation of its premises and explain why it can no longer serve as an adequate explanatory framework in the modern political context. We argue that representation was not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040530
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Civil society and EU constitution-making: Towards a European social constituency?
Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Bernhard, Nadine; Jentges, Erik - RECON - 2009
discourse on the EU. In order to reconstruct how interests, identities and normative ideas relating to the legitimacy of an EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040536
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008803021