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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040531
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Constitutionalism beyond the state: myth or necessity?
Cohen, Jean L. - RECON - 2010
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