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State Isomorphism in the Post-Socialist Transition

Kyvelidis, Ioannis - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 02

With the collapse of the communist regimes, the post-socialist countries are facing the problem of building new legal and institutional systems which will adequately address the needs of the markets. They also try to implement new reforms. But the transition towards economic and market reforms...

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The European Parliaments Political Legitimacy and the Commissions Misleading Management: Towards a Parliamentarian European Union?

Muntean, Andrei M. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 05

This paper studies the basic characteristics of the political legitimacy of the European Parliament (EP) within the … supranational political system of the European Union (EU) and argues that an increase in the political legitimacy of the EP might … provide a solution to the legitimacy problem at the EU level of supranational governance. The case study of misleading …

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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 Standard of Review in WTO Law: An Analysis of Law, Legitimacy and the Distribution of Legal and Political Authority

Zleptnig, Stefan - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 10

important issue of strengthening the legitimacy of the dispute settlement system, and a possible role for the standard of review …

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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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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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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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