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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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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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Taking Constitutionalism Beyond the State

Walker, Neil - RECON - 2007

In recent years, the idea that constitutional modes of government are exclusive to states has become the subject of sustained challenge. This is due to the development in regional and global sites of regulatory institutions and practices which meet criteria normally associated with...

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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 …

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Recognition and political theory: Paradoxes and conceptual challenges of the politics of recognition

Hitzel-Cassagnes, Tanja; -Bruns, Rainer Schmalz - RECON - 2009

Both in moral philosophy more generally and in political philosophy and theory (including constitutional theory) more specifically we have been witnessing a paradigmatic challenge of the conceptual foundations of moral constructivism and political liberalism. Although building on rather...

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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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