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Improving EU Constitutional Politics? A Preliminary Assessment of the Convention
Closa, Carlos - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2003
The Convention appears to many as both a confirmation of the thesis of the new institutionalism on the value of institutions for shaping the outcome of constitutional politics (the politics of creating EU fundamental rules) and a new model for democratic deliberative politics. From this second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005236990
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EC Controversy: What are the Issues? EC Controversy: What Are the Issues
Iyer, Ramaswamy R. - eSocialSciences - 2009
A comprehensive and logically rigorous analysis of the issues raised by the recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner N.Gopalaswami for the removal of Election Commissioner Navin Chawla, the President’s rejection and the developments that followed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341726
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Public Accountability in the European Union: Is the European Parliament able to hold the European Council accountable?
van de Steeg, Marianne - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 08
The European Council occupies a central role in European politics. Yet it is not officially accountable to any public or parliamentary body for the decisions it makes on behalf of European citizens. National parliaments are only entitled to exert control over their own Heads of Government or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015445
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European Democracy and Its Critique Five Uneasy Pieces
Weiler, J.H.H.; Haltern, U.; Mayer, F. - Jean Monnet Chair - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225750
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Transnational Justice and Democracy
Forst, Rainer - RECON - 2011
This paper argues against three traditional dogmas in political theory: the thesis of the (conceptual and practical …) 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643140
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The dynamics of legitimation - Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism
Gaus, Daniel - RECON - 2011
approaches and that b) acknowledges the systematic relation of political theory, the sociology of knowledge and the history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644125
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Rashomon in Karlsruhe - A reflection on Democracy and Identity in the European Union
"Franz C. Mayer" - Jean Monnet Chair - 2001
state of European constitutionalism and of some changes in its landscape, arguing that democracy as the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742943
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The Ups and Downs of Bureaucratic Organization
Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007
theory, theories of formal organizations, and Weber’s ideas are used for exploring de-bureaucratization efforts since the … over time. While elements of a theoretical framework are suggested, no great optimism for a comprehensive theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040226
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EU Governance: Where do we go from here?
Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008
How can students of the European Union get from describing recent advances, to speculating about what are possible new directions and research agendas? How promising are terms such as “governance” and “the new governance” for improving the understanding how the Union is overned and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040269
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Reflexive Integration in Europe
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004
Integration may occur through coercion and intergovernmental bargaining - through blackmail, tradition, functional adaptation, copying, diffusion or exit - but it may also occur through reflexive reason-giving and entrenched commitments. The usefulness of such an approach to transnational and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040453