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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 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 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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The European Economic and Social Committee: towards deliberative democracy via a functional assembly

Smismans, Stijn - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 09

functional representation in addition to legitimacy based on territorial representation. Conceptualised as a form of deliberative …

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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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Independent and Accountable Central Banks and the European Central Bank

Sousa, Pedro A. B. de - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 07

This paper begins with the concept of central bank independence and focuses its argument around one of its major drawbacks the potential absence of accountability by the monetary authority. Then, beyond defining an alternative legal central bank independence index, we analyse the current...

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States Without a Market? Comments on the German Constitutional Court's Maastricht-Judgement and a Plea for Interdisciplinary Discourses

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

://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/1997-019a.htm ). The analytical approach chosen includes a "comparative analysis" of legal and political science theories …

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Trust in the institutions of the European Union: A cross-country examination

Arnold; Christine; Sapir, Eliyahu V.; Zapryanova, Galina - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 16 (2012) 02

also tend to have higher degrees of legitimacy and policy efficacy. In Europeâ€™s multi-level governance structure, it is …

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