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Fiscal Policy Rules and the Sustainability of Public Debt in Europe

Collignon, Stefan - RECON - 2010

In this paper, the sustainability of public debt is interpreted as the result of the interaction of fiscal policy with the economic environment, and not as a statistical concept as in most of the recent literature. If debt must not explode over time, policy makers have to respond to the changing...

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United they diverge? From conflicts of law to constitutional theory? On Christian Joerges’ theory

Menéndez, Agustín José - RECON - 2011

This working paper offers a reconstruction and critical analysis of Joerges’ conflicts theory of European Union law. It is claimed that the theory of European conflicts is structured around three key premises: first, that there are functional and normative reasons to transcend the autarchic...

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The committee of the regions: the recon models from a subnational perspective

Schönlau, Justus - RECON - 2010

's trajectory through the prism of the three models of EU democracy development (audit democracy, multi-national federal democracy … and regional-European cosmopolitan democracy) as developed in the RECON project. It is argued that the sub-national level … has to be directly involved in the EU structures in any attempt at 're-constituting' democracy at EU level. The Committee …

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Informal elite dialogue and democratic control in EU foreign and security policy

Wiener, Antje; Puetter, Uwe - RECON - 2010

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European transformation: A pragmatist approach

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2010

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Democratic Boundaries in the US and Europe. Inequality, Localisation and Voluntarism in Social Welfare Provsion

Altman, Tess; Mayes, David G. - RECON - 2011

Our aim in this paper is to explore three related trends which have emerged in recent years that are contributing to important changes in the way both social welfare and democratic decision making over its form and content interact. These trends are: growing inequality, an increasing devolution...

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Equal pay and dilemmas of justice

Holst, Cathrine - RECON - 2011

Equal pay for work of equal value is a fundamental principle in EU law and so in the EEA Agreement. The paper takes as its point of departure the debate in Norway on the interpretation of EEA equal pay legislation, and relates this debate to the broader equal pay controversy in Norway. Among...

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Parliamentary control of military missions: The case of the EU NAVFOR Atalanta

Peters, Dirk; Wagner, Wolfgang; Glahn, Cosima - RECON - 2011

The paper examines a key dimension of democratic control, namely parliamentary control of military missions and presents the findings of an in-depth case study on the EU’s maritime mission Atalanta that was launched to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia. The case study finds that none of...

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Democracy models and parties at the EU level: Empirical evidence from the adoption of the 2009 European election manifestoes

Emmanuel Sigalas, Monika Mokre, Johannes Pollak, Peter … - RECON - 2010

examines if democracy at the EU level is closer to the ideal-type of delegated, federal or regional-cosmopolitan democracy. We … concentrate on the 2009 European election party manifestoes. We hypothesise that under the delegated democracy model there should … EPP and the EGP cannot be placed under the same EU democracy model. …

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Two stories about toleration

Forst, Rainer - RECON - 2010

In current social conflicts in European societies such as the ones concerning the crucifix in classrooms or the foulard or the burka worn in public, toleration is a concept claimed by all involved. The paper uncovers the historical and conceptual reasons for such ambivalence about the notion of...

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