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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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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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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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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 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 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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