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Understanding the Role of Bureaucracy in the European Security and Defence Policy: The State of the Art

Vanhoonacker, Sophie; Dijkstra, Hylke; Heidi, Maurer - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 14 (2010) 08

The establishment of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 1999 has led to the creation of a whole range of bureaucratic bodies in Brussels and the national capitals. These bodies support the crisis management operations of the European Union. This review article presents the state...

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Theorizing party interaction within EPFs and their effects on the EU policy-making process

Kulahci, Erol - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 09

Since the last decade, the development of European Party Federations (EPFs) has been followed with increasing attention from scholars. However, the analysis of EPFs' impacts on EU policy-making has been quasi-neglected. Therefore, the main objective of the paper is to present a comprehensive...

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Explaining the Absence of a Genuine European Social-Democrat Consensus: the Case of 'Une Stratégie pour la Solidarité'

Kulahci, Erol - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 03

Some academic circles have pointed out that the European Union and its Member States suffer from a legitimacy deficit …

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The Open Method of Coordination: Underconceptualisation, overdetermination, de-politicisation and beyond

Kröger, Sandra - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

, its theoretical conceptualisation of effectiveness and legitimacy and related empirical findings. The main part of the … therefore raised as to its legitimacy. …

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A New Kind of Legitimacy for a New Kind of Parliament The Evolution of the European Parliament

Wessels, Wolfgang; Diedrichs, Udo - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 04

The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …

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Theorising the New Modes of European Union Governance

Eberlein, Burkard; Kerwer, Dieter - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 04

Recently, 'new modes of governance' based on voluntary performance standards, rather than compulsory regulation, have gained salience in European Union governance. Can these 'new modes of governance' offer a credible solution to the challenges faced by EU policy making? We argue that a critical...

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Issue Salience and the Domestic Legitimacy Demands of European Integration. The Cases of Britain and Germany

Oppermann, Kai; Viehrig, Henrike - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The salience of European issues to the general public is a major determinant of the domestic legitimacy demands that … the legitimacy demands that governments have to meet on the domestic level. Whereas the domestic legitimacy of European … legitimacy demands when formulating their European policies than German governments. This may contribute to accounting for both …

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