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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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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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State Isomorphism in the Post-Socialist Transition

Kyvelidis, Ioannis - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 02

With the collapse of the communist regimes, the post-socialist countries are facing the problem of building new legal and institutional systems which will adequately address the needs of the markets. They also try to implement new reforms. But the transition towards economic and market reforms...

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The EU Eastern enlargement: Policy choices of the Spanish government

Piedrafita Tremosa, Sonia - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 01

Eastern enlargement is a process in which the very identity of the European Union is under construction, with its constitutive principles and values being challenged. Policy choices of the member governments participating in this process can not exclusively being explained by rational choice...

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The Constitution Debate

Schneider, Heinrich - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 03

The paper deals with certain questions and problems of the constitutionalization of the European Union which did not receive very much attention from the Convention on the Future of Europe and from the observers of that Conventions work, but which, nevertheless, may be relevant whenever the...

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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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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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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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