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Altneuland : The EU Constitution in a Contextual Perspective
Walker, Neil; Pettit, Philip; Sajo, Andras; Tushnet, Mark; … - Jean Monnet Chair - 2004
Altneuland: The European Constitutional Terrain It is in many respects a New Land - for the first time the Union is openly, officially using the word Constitution in its formal self-understanding. But this, in turn, places it, at least lexically, in the age old terrain of constitutionalism which...
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In the Shadow of the Constitution: Common Foreign and Security Policy/European Security and Defence Policy Adapting to a Changing External Environment
Nickel, Dietmar; Quille, Gerrard - Jean Monnet Chair - 2007
Abstract: The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is understood as an important new "instrument" in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) "toolbox", designed to respond to the contemporary security environment as well as to overcome the inaction and hesitancy of the past....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611148
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Religions, secularity and democracy in Europe: for a new Kelsenian pact
Ferrari, Alessandro - Jean Monnet Chair - 2005
Abstract: In Europe the public role of the religions appears to be directly proportional to the fall in trust in the procedural mechanisms at the basis of the liberal democracies. Compared to the strong identities attributed to the United States and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611136
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From Parliamentarism to Pluralism
Coultrap, John - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 11 (1999) 1, pp. 107-135
that is based on the European parliamentary model of democracy. Although widely considered to be a valid foundation for … suggests a transition from the traditional democratic deficit critique to a new theoretical conception of democracy in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777925
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The nature of the beast: are citizens’ juries deliberative or pluralist?
Huitema, Dave; Kerkhof, Marleen; Pesch, Udo - In: Policy Sciences 40 (2007) 4, pp. 287-311
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Citizen Access to Political Power in the European Union
Harlow, Carol - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029460
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Balancing Security and Democracy: The Politics of Biometric Identification in the European Union
Liberatore, Angela - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2005
accountability-is characterised by intense debate by a plurality of actors. Such pluralism is limited to those actors who have the … pluralism-including plurality of expertise-explains specific features of the development of biometrics in the EU, namely the … central role of the metaphor of 'balancing' security and democracy, and the 'competitive cooperation' between new and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029482
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Democracy, education and economics
Emami, Zohreh; Davis, John - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 1 (2009) 1/2, pp. 37-45
This paper examines the connections between democracy and education, particularly as it concerns economics. We adopt a … pluralist proceduralist view of democracy, and argue that this requires a view of individuals as active decision-makers able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010816858
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New Emerging Judicial Dynamics of the Relationship Between National and the European Courts after the Enlargement of Europe
Pollicino, Oreste - Jean Monnet Chair - 2008
Abstract: The paper explores the impact of the great enlargement of Europe (European Union and Council of Europe) to the east on the judicial interaction between the EU, the ECHR and the Member States legal orders. In order to appraise the dynamic and prospective nature of the enlargement, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611180
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Constitutionalism beyond the state: myth or necessity?
Cohen, Jean L. - RECON - 2010
, but not only, when they have constitutionalism- and democracy eviscerating effects. The discourse of global … best of what the older sovereignty regime of international law had to offer – constitutionalism, democracy, self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645015