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Europe in Search of its Legitimacy - Assessing Strategies of Legitimation

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2002

How can the EU rectify its legitimacy deficit? On the basis of three logics of political integration we identify explicit strategies for how the legitimacy deficit of the EU can be remedied. The first strategy amounts to a scaling down of the ambitions of the polity-makers in the EU. If pursued...

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Still a Union of deep diversity? The Convention and the Constitution for Europe

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2003

This paper examines the Convention on the Future of Europe in terms of whether its work bears the imprint of a constitutional treaty or a constitution proper. Two constitutional visions for the EU are presented - deep diversity and constitutional patriotism - and assessed in relation to the...

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Adieu to constitutional elitism?

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2006

The negative referendum results in France and the Netherlands have been construed as signs of a deep gap between the European Union’s leaders and its people(s). Treaty-making/change in the European Union has historically been conducted through an intergovernmental, executive-style approach,...

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A done deal? The EU’s legitimacy conundrum revisited

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2007

the EU. Such a solution entails reconstituting democracy (rather than simply abolishing the EU or uploading nation …-state democracy to the EU-level). We briefly outline three models for how to reconstitute democracy in Europe; each of which reflects …

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Europe in Transformation: How to Reconstitute Democracy?

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2007

Europeanisation and globalisation are frequently held to undermine national democracy. What are then the prospects for … democracy in the multi-level constellation that makes up the contemporary European political order? The European debate has … taken the question of democracy beyond the nation state. But can there be democracy without nation and state? The authors …

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Constitutional patriotism: Canada and the European Union

Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the question of allegiance in complex multinational and poly-ethnic entities, with specific focus on the EU and Canada. Constitutional patriotism is a mode of attachment that is conducive to respect for and accommodation of difference and plurality. How...

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Nationalism, Patriotism and Diversity. Conseptualising the national dimension in Neil MacCormick's post-sovereign constellation

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011

This paper scrutinises MacCormick’s liberal nationalism. The first issue with which he grapples is how well the post-sovereign constellation can re-configure nationalism through disposing of the exclusivist and suppressive (of regional forms of nationalism) propensities built into the...

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Nationalism, Patriotism and Diversity. Conseptualising the national dimension in Neil MacCormick's post-sovereign constellation

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011

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Norway's European conundrum

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2008

of incorporation that poses serious challenges to Norwegian democracy. In the concluding section the democratic …

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Bringing European Democracy Back In. Or how to read the German Constitutional Court's Lisbon Treaty ruling

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2010

Treaty ruling. This is needed because the ruling is ambiguous with regard to what democracy for what Union. In order to … analyse the ruling we establish three models of what European democracy possibly can amount to: Audit democracy based on the …’s argumentation does not lend support to this notion. The Court models democracy on a rather specific set of institutional …

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