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Explicating social action: arguing or bargaining

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2009

Jon Elster has a clear view of the role of norms and impartiality in collective decision making processes, but does not ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how can private desires be the causes of the same...

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644125

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

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040516

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

The EU Constitutional Process: A Failure of Political Representation?

Crum, Ben - RECON - 2008

This paper proposes to assess the representative quality of European Union decision-making by way of a micro-approach which traces the effectiveness of the mechanisms of representation that connect the European peoples to the decision-making process. In particular, it proposes to distinguish...

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Europe in Transformation: How to Reconstitute Democracy?

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2007

Europeanisation and globalisation are frequently held to undermine national democracy. What are then the prospects for democracy in the multi-level constellation that makes up the contemporary European political order? The European debate has taken the question of democracy beyond the nation...

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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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European transformation: A pragmatist approach

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2010

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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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