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European governmentality or decentralised network governance? The case of the European Employment Strategy
Möller, Kolja - RECON - 2010
academic literature it is stylized as a focal point for decentralised modes of governance. But drawing on Michel Foucault …’s governmentality approach the OMC does not seem to represent an innovative governance tool but a governmental system of power. The OMC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611202
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The quality of democracy in the Czech Republic
Mansfeldová, Zdenka; Guasti, Petra Rakušanová - RECON - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680865
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Data Mining and ‘Renegade’ Aircrafts: The States as Agents of a Global Militant Security Governance Network — The German Example
Nickel, Rainer - RECON - 2010
Security governance has changed the way societies organise and control the execution of powers. This contribution will … in a wider context; they are embedded in a growing structure of security governance, which has evolved into a Global … Militant Security Governance. This formally non-hierarchical network structure poses a threat to the rule of law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694985
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Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance
Steffek, Jens - RECON - 2008
accountability relations within governance networks has its merits the creeping re-conceptualization of ‘public accountability’ as an …In the literature on European and global governance there is a trend to conceptualize ‘public accountability’ as … of governance through public debate. This paper critically discusses the advance of managerial and administrative notions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040543
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The Commission and its principals: Delegation theory on a common European external trade policy in the WTO
Tausendfreund, Rachel Herp - RECON - 2009
Understanding the consequences, for states and citizens, of making policy on the EU level is central to the reception of the European project and questions of democracy in the EU. This analysis places EU policy-making, trade policy in particular, in the context of bureaucratic power literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611209
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Human rights in European Union’s foreign policy: Universal in discourse, flexible in practice
Türkeş, Selin Merzuka - RECON - 2011
Establishing a cornerstone, a fundamental reference point in the new world order, human rights have been a very much cherished but very loosely adopted concept. Thus, in international relations, human rights emerged as a critical issue while the European Union appeared as a remarkable player....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225751
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Moving away from unanimity: Ratification of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union
Montero, Carlos Closa - RECON - 2011
The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG) removes the unanimity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492800
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Transnational Justice and Democracy
Forst, Rainer - RECON - 2011
This paper argues against three traditional dogmas in political theory: the thesis of the (conceptual and practical) incompatibility between democracy and justice; the idea that a context of justice only exists within the confines of a state; and the view that political democracy presupposes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643140
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644125
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Social insurance mechanisms in the European Union
Lyons, Katherine; Cheyne, Christine - RECON - 2011
Social insurance is an established method of social protection in certain European Union (EU) member states and has been introduced more widely as a means of minimising the threats to social welfare expenditure from economic crisis and ageing populations. With the recent global financial crisis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645436