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State-building and Europeanization in the Western Balkans

Berna, Ioana-Bianca - In: Economics, management and financial markets 8 (2013) 4, pp. 154-159

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The Impact of Europeanization on the Quality of Democracy in Romania

ALBESCU, Andrada - In: Europolity – Continuity and Change in European … 1 (2007) 1, pp. 35-50

In this project I propose to analyse the impact of the Europeanization process on democracy’s quality in Romania … focus on the analysis of democracy’s quality in Romania proper and on the importance of Europeanization in this process. The … last part will present conclusions regarding the way in which Europeanization was understood in Romania. Was …

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Solidarität unter Fremden? Europäische Identität im Härtetest

Risse, Thomas - Free University Berlin - 2013

Die Euro-Krise ist nicht nur ein Härtetest für die europäische Integration, sondern auch für die vielbeschworene „Solidarität unter Fremden und für die Annahme, dass europäische Identität zu dieser Solidarität führt. Jetzt muss sich zeigen, ob Europäerinnen und Europäer –...

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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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The Open Method of Coordination: Underconceptualisation, overdetermination, de-politicisation and beyond

Kröger, Sandra - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

This introduction provides a brief overview of the existing OMC literature with regard to the introduction of the OMC, its theoretical conceptualisation of effectiveness and legitimacy and related empirical findings. The main part of the introduction, however, focuses on chosen shortcomings of...

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Mair, Peter - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2005

Although we still celebrate the late twentieth-century ‘victory of democracy’, our understanding of what democracy entails in both theory and practice is increasingly subject to a variety of qualifying definitions, many of which now seem to devalue the role of elections and electoral...

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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...

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European Identity Formation in the Public Sphere and in Foreign Policy

Risse, Thomas; Grabowsky, Jana Katharina - RECON - 2008

While in political debates identity is often considered as given, scholars of social sciences concentrate on the formation of new and particularly transnational identities. Insights from nationalism reveal mechanisms of identity formation but European integration has taken its own way. We...

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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...

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Democratizing the transnational polity: The European Union and the presuppositions of democracy

Bohman, James - RECON - 2007

After briefly considering the problems of political authority and democratic reform typical of formal transnational institutions, this paper offers a theory of democratization for transnational polities. Democratizing a polity such as the European Union requires two conditions to be realized...

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