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Adversary or ‘depoliticized’ institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention

Hüller, Thorsten - RECON - 2007

This paper is about a counterfactual empirical assumption: If the Laeken convention had been elected, we would have had a more democratic as well as a more legitimate process of European constitution making. Electing conventioneers and re-opening the convention is probably a successful way to...

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The interpretative moment of European journalism: The impact of newspaper opinion making in the ratification process

Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Conrad, Maximilian; Rosén, Guri - RECON - 2007

This study investigates the role of political journalism in EU constitution-making. More specifically, we ask whether political journalists take an active role in shaping public preferences and opinion on European integration. An analytical framework is developed distinguishing between the...

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The referendum threat, the rationally ignorant voter, and the political culture of the EU

Majone, Giandomenico - RECON - 2009

-leaders is the view of popular referendums as an unconscionable risk for the integration process--the referendum roulette. One of … the favourite arguments against ratification of European treaties by popular referendum is that voters cannot be expected …

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The Constitutional Treaty debates as revelatory mechanisms: Insights for public sphere research and re-launch attempts

Meyer, Christoph - RECON - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to examine the media debates concerning ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE) from the perspective of public sphere research and in view of the decision by the 2007 Brussels European Council to initiate a new intergovernmental...

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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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Coming to terms with the ‘legitimacy crisis’ of European foreign politics: The European Parliament pushing the frontiers of consultation

Wisniewski, Elisabeth - RECON - 2011

Since its early beginnings, the member states of the European Communities have tried to establish a common foreign policy and at the same time were reluctant to implement it. Only the Maastricht Treaty introduced an institutional framework. However, the emerging Common Foreign and Security...

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Debating humanitarian military interventions in the European public sphere

Kantner, Cathleen - RECON - 2011

What kind of democracy might fit the developing Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) given the political …

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The Role of Information and Knowledge in the EU Foreign Policy System Evidence from Heads of Mission’s Reports

Bicchi, Federica - RECON - 2011

This paper focuses on the role of information and knowledge in the EU foreign policy system. In particular, it examines the case of HoMs reports, which are drafted by Heads of Mission (HoMs) in non-EU countries about the situation on the ground and what the EU could/should do about it. They...

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Transnational Justice and Democracy

Forst, Rainer - RECON - 2011

) incompatibility between democracy and justice; the idea that a context of justice only exists within the confines of a state; and the … view that political democracy presupposes a demos organised within a state. Only if these dogmas are overcome can a proper … conception of transnational justice and democracy be worked out. The key to this is the right picture of justice as based on a …

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The dynamics of legitimation - Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism

Gaus, Daniel - RECON - 2011

The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on...

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