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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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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 focus on the ’German’ approach, and, inevitably these days, also on the EU approach towards new threats to security, especially with regard to terrorism. The main argument...

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EU law 'transformed'? Evaluating accountability and subsidiarity in the 'streamlined' OMC for Social Inclusion and Social Protection

Dawson, Mark - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

From initially defining new governance processes as external to 'traditional' forms of EU law, a number of academic scholars have begun to argue that methods like the OMC can be seen as indicative of a broader 'transformation' of European law-making. The transformation thesis relies on seeing...

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Adversary or ‘depoliticized’ institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention

Hüller, Thorsten - RECON - 2007

legitimacy-trap. An elected convention would probably be more democratic, because such an institution would be more public as …

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The EU Constitutional Process: A Failure of Political Representation?

Crum, Ben - RECON - 2008

This paper proposes to assess the representative quality of European Union decision-making by way of a micro-approach which traces the effectiveness of the mechanisms of representation that connect the European peoples to the decision-making process. In particular, it proposes to distinguish...

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Taking Constitutionalism Beyond the State

Walker, Neil - RECON - 2007

In recent years, the idea that constitutional modes of government are exclusive to states has become the subject of sustained challenge. This is due to the development in regional and global sites of regulatory institutions and practices which meet criteria normally associated with...

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

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

discourse on the EU. In order to reconstruct how interests, identities and normative ideas relating to the legitimacy of an EU …

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Measuring Europeanisation of public communication: The question of standards

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - RECON - 2007

The emergence of a pan-European public sphere as a correlate of democratic governance in the EU is held to be difficult, if not impossible. This has shifted the research agenda to the Europeanisation of public and media communication. The European public sphere light is observed by measuring...

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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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