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Explicating social action: arguing or bargaining

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2009

Jon Elster has a clear view of the role of norms and impartiality in collective decision making processes, but does not ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how can private desires be the causes of the same...

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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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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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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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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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Sovereignty in Conflict

Besson, Samantha - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 09

risks of erosion implied by constitutional pluralism, while also enhancing the legitimacy of the European polity. This can …

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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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