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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

Trust in political institutions is one of the key elements which make representative democracies work. Trust creates a connection between citizens and representative political institutions. Democratic governments which enjoy a large degree of trust also tend to have higher degrees of legitimacy...

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Parliaments and European security policy. Mapping the Parliamentary Field

Peters, Dirk; Wagner, Wolfgang; Deitelhoff, Nicole - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 14 (2010) 08

The more important governmental cooperation and bureaucratic involvement become in ESDP, the more pressing becomes the issue of democratic control of executive cooperation. This article starts from the argument that parliamentary involvement in decision-making is of central importance for...

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A Democratically Accountable External Action Service: Three Scenarios

Bátora, Jozef - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 14 (2010) 08

democracy-building processes in various countries around the world, ensuring democratic accountability necessarily becomes a key …

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Normative power Europe? EU relations with Moldova

Niemann, Arne; de Wekker, Tessa - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 14 (2010) 10

) normative impact. Our empirical analysis focuses on two norms: democracy and good governance. In addition, we ask how … democracy and good governance seem to play a central role in EU-Moldovan relations, the Union tends to apply double standards in …

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Portugal and the EU’s Eastern Enlargement: A logic of identity endorsement

Schukkink, Martijn; Niemann, Arne - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 16 (2012) 07

choice for membership has been equated with a choice for democracy, stability and openness. Portuguese support for Eastern …

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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...

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Behind the Copenhagen façade. The meaning and structure of the Copenhagen political criterion of democracy and the rule of law

Kochenov, Dimitry - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07

The paper makes an attempt to map the Copenhagen criterion of democracy and the rule of law, one of the main … more than ten years ago, at the time of introduction of the criterion. How should democracy and rule of law be interpreted … by the conditionality policy applied by the Union. The paper concludes that the assessment of democracy and the rule of …

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Public access to community documents: a fundamental human right?

Davis, Roy W. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 07

There is a marked difference between the culture of open government in some Member States, particularly Sweden, and the culture of secrecy in Britain. Recent calls for a uniform interpretation of the law regarding public access to documents held by the Community Institutions seem to suggest that...

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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

.This article discusses the tensions between two aspects of institutional change in the EU: the adaptation of institutional arrangements with the prospect of the legitimization of Community governance within a policy-making arena on the one hand, and the external evaluation of these...

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Public Access to Documents after the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty: Much Ado About Nothing?

Öberg, Ulf - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 2 (1998) 10

There is a trend towards recognising a general principle of public access to documents held by public authorities, both in national and in Community law. Once such a fundamental principle of Community law is established, the exceptions to public access to documents laid down in the internal...

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