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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040516
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Conflict of laws as constitutional form: Reflections on the International Trade Law and the Biotech Panel Report
Joerges, Christian - RECON - 2007
Hardly anywhere is the trend towards a perfection of transnational governance arrangements and their legalization more visible than in international trade. Governance arrangements established through and alongside WTO law are both practically important and theoretically challenging. They do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040527
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Applying precaution in Community authorisation of genetically modified products: Challenges and suggestions for reform
Weimer, Maria - RECON - 2009
principle, precaution requires EU regulators to strike a balance between scientific and political legitimacy when taking … the extremes of either purely science-based decision-making or a highly politicised precautionary rhetoric. I suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543458
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019533