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Speaking with forked tongues - Swedish public administration and the European employment strategy

Casula Vifell, Åsa - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 07

The aim of this paper is to understand how decision making processes within the EU comes to affect the structures for national policy making within the employment field. The paper addresses the question of how the process of writing new employment guidelines for the EES – European employment...

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Taming the ‘Trojan Horse’ of Comitology? Accountability issues of Comitology and the Role of the European Parliament

Neuhold, Christine - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The European Commission plays a major role as regulator in the process of implementation of European legislation. Just looking at the figures of implementing measures one will find that the Commission adopts more than 2.500 such legal acts per year. As is well known the Commission is not alone...

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Equal Opportunities between Men and Women and Gender Mainstreaming under the European Employment Strategy (EES) and the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) – A New Policy Approach to...

Braams, Beate - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 12

The aim of this article is to analyse the development of the concepts of equal opportunities between men and women and gender mainstreaming with regard to a new policy approach taken outside the traditional community method and to raise the question to what extent these policy instruments can be...

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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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On the politicization of the European consociation: A middle way between Hix and Bartolini

Magnette, Paul; Papadopoulos, Yannis - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2008

A debate has emerged between S. Hix and S. Bartolini on the plausibility and desirability of the politicization of the EU. By this it is usually meant a more important role for mass, competitive, and partisan politics both on the input- (expression of preferences) and on the output-...

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Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik

Follesdal, Andreas; Hix, Simon - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2005

In a series of recent papers, Giandomenico Majone and Andrew Moravcsik have ‘raised the bar’ in the debate over the so-called ‘democratic deficit’ in the European Union. These two influential scholars both contend that much of the existing analysis is flawed and that the EU is as...

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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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Decisiveness and Inclusiveness: Intergovernmental Choice of European Decision Rules

König, Thomas; Bräuninger, Thomas - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 12

Studying the member states' constitutional choice of European decision rules most power index analyses concentrate on the relative decisiveness of member states in the Council of Minister. However, this emphasis has two shortcomings: First, it ignores the interaction between the Commission, the...

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Will the Constitutional Treaty Contribute to the Legitimacy of the European Union?

Abromeit, Heidrun; Wolf, Sebastian - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 08

The article explores whether the Constitutional Treaty may provide more legitimacy for governance in the European Union … on the use of Union power are suboptimal; the EU's weak 'input legitimacy' is not strengthened. On the other side, the … enhanced legitimacy, the overall picture, albeit somewhat daunting, is not altogether bleak. …

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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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