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Democratizing the transnational polity: The European Union and the presuppositions of democracy

Bohman, James - RECON - 2007

citizens to initiate deliberation. Current theories of cosmopolitan and transnational democracy (either from above or from …

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Old wine in new bottles? The actual and potential contribution of civil society organisations to democratic governance in Europe

Friedrich, Dawid - RECON - 2007

democracy-enhancing quality. In recent years, the European initiatives to establish a civil dialogue, to improve the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040535

Some indicators of the democratic performance of the European Union and how they might relate to the RECON models

Lord, Christopher - RECON - 2008

the following steps. First by understanding that both the main types of justification for democracy - intrinsic and … corollaries of ‘public control with political equality’ and then using them to specify minimum standards of democracy. Third by …

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Enchancing the democratic legitimacy of EU governance? The impact of online public consultations in energy policy-making

Primova, Radostina - RECON - 2011

With the White Paper on European Governance (2001) the European Commission has introduced a new approach to European policy-making and civil society making public consultations an essential tool for improving governance and policy outputs. The present study seeks to explore the role of online...

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Public Spheres within Movements: Challenging the (Re)search for a European Public Sphere

Haug, Christoph - RECON - 2008

The emergence of a transnational public sphere in Europe is expected to facilitate democratic control and public debate about European issues as well as enable the formation of a European collective identity. Taking this claim seriously, though, reveals that empirical research has so far taken a...

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Civil society and EU constitution-making: Towards a European social constituency?

Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Bernhard, Nadine; Jentges, Erik - RECON - 2009

The EU constitutional process has ascribed a new role to civil society not only as a partner in governance but also as a constituent of the emerging EU polity. Civil society appears in this process primarily as the structure of voice that is articulated in relation to EU governance and that...

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United they diverge? From conflicts of law to constitutional theory? On Christian Joerges’ theory

Menéndez, Agustín José - RECON - 2011

This working paper offers a reconstruction and critical analysis of Joerges’ conflicts theory of European Union law. It is claimed that the theory of European conflicts is structured around three key premises: first, that there are functional and normative reasons to transcend the autarchic...

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The committee of the regions: the recon models from a subnational perspective

Schönlau, Justus - RECON - 2010

's trajectory through the prism of the three models of EU democracy development (audit democracy, multi-national federal democracy … and regional-European cosmopolitan democracy) as developed in the RECON project. It is argued that the sub-national level … has to be directly involved in the EU structures in any attempt at 're-constituting' democracy at EU level. The Committee …

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Informal elite dialogue and democratic control in EU foreign and security policy

Wiener, Antje; Puetter, Uwe - RECON - 2010

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European transformation: A pragmatist approach

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2010

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