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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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Political drivers of and barriers to Public-Private Partnerships: The role of political involvement

Gawel, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschafltiche Fakultät, Universität Leipzig - 2011

political influence is brought to bear in the first place. Furthermore, aspects of political science in this field (legitimacy …

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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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Modes of Regulation in the Governance of the European Union: Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation

Knill, Christoph; Lenschow, Andrea - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 02

The European Union is becoming a regulatory state with many faces. Classical top-down regulatory policy is joined by less authoritative, less interventionist and more participatory regulatory forms. At least in part, these regulatory experiments are intended to improve the quality of governing...

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The Market without the State? The 'Economic Constitution' of the European Community and the Rebirth of Regulatory Politics

Joerges, Christian - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 11

The paper reacts to a widespread perception of the development of the European Community after the adoption and implementation of the internal market programme. These perceptions are characterised as endorsing the emergence of a "market without the state". This vision, the paper argues, is...

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The paradoxical effects of institutional change for the legitimacy of European governance: the case of EU Social Policy

Wendler, Frank - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07

evolution in this field shows that strong tendencies towards the adaptation of Community governance to its contested legitimacy … legitimacy deficits that are not just related to the imbalance of the input- and output-dimensions of legitimacy, but also to the …

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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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Democracy and Governance in the European Union

Jachtenfuchs, Markus - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 04

It is generally believed that internationalization undermines governance and democracy. This phenomenon has two dimensions. On the one hand, it is a real process which has to be understood. On the other hand, it constitutes a challenge for a number of concepts and theories in the social sciences...

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