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This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound. But the multilevel EU has...
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Jon Elster has a clear view of the role of norms and impartiality in collective decision making processes, but does not ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how can private desires be the causes of the same...
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-making processes as it is not only the quality of the outcomes that determine the democratic legitimacy of policy-making, but also the …
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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 … purpose organisation. Here the EU’s own legitimacy is held to be dependent on its performance and on the legitimacy of the …
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The European Union is presently at a major crossroads. The Laeken process which launched the EU onto an explicit constitution-making process, has ground to a halt after the negative referendum results in France and the Netherlands. The European Council at its 16-17 June 2005 meeting decided to...
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The EU is often labelled a unique entity. This assertion is more the product of assessments of its institutional character than on the nature of its social constituency, i.e. the structure of demands and expectations that citizens and groups place on the EU. Determining the character of the...
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-national legitimacy? The author contends that democracy can only prevail with egalitarian procedures of law making in place through which … discourse modelled on a less demanding concept of democratic legitimacy. The concept of a working agreement is introduced in … order to establish such concept legitimacy as well as to account for the constitutional developments of the EU. …
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