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European governance still technocratic? New modes of governance for food safety regulation in the European Union
Fischer, Robert - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 12
This article contributes to the debate on technocratic governance in the European Union. It examines the relationship between scientific expertise and policy-making in the foodstuffs sector and scrutinises the hypothesis that the European Commission follows a technocratic model in the food...
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'Deliberative Supranationalism' A Defence
Joerges, Christian - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 07
This paper is essentially a translation of a comment in German (Joerges 2000) on a series of articles in which Rainer Schmalz-Bruns (1998, 1999a, 1999b) developed a concept of legitimate governance beyond the constitutional state, which he called deliberative supra-nationalism and contrasted...
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A new concept of deepening European integration? The European Research Area and the emerging role of policy coordination in a multi-level governance system
Kaiser, Robert; Prange, Heiko - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 10
Within the discussion on European governance and constitutional reforms of the EU polity the so-called "open method of coordination" (OMC) has gained much attention as a procedure that occupies an intermediary place between intergovernmental cooperation and supranational legislation. In this...
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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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Representation through deliberation. The European case
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011
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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A New Kind of Legitimacy for a New Kind of Parliament The Evolution of the European Parliament
Wessels, Wolfgang; Diedrichs, Udo - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 04
The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …
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Representation through deliberation. The European case
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734493
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Representation through Deliberation: The European Case
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019533
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Contingent democrats in action : organized labor and regime change in the Republic of Niger
Elischer, Sebastian - 2013
The effects of organized labor on regime change in developing countries are not clear‐cut. Optimists argue that union agitation is conducive to both democratic transition and consolidation processes. Pessimists hold that unions will support any regime that is conducive to their demands....
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Country Level Evaluation Nigeria : Final Report ; Volume I: Main Report
Olesen, Gunnar (contributor);  … - ECO Consult - 2010
This report covers the evaluation of the cooperation strategy of the EC with the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its implementation in relation to the Country Strategies and National Indicative Programmes of the 7th and 9th European Development Funds(EDF) as well as to contributions from...
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