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The Dynamics of Legitimation. Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism

Gaus, Daniel - ARENA - 2011

The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on … political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical … approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on societal constellations of citizens’ beliefs. The dynamic character of …

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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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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...

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Speaking with forked tongues - Swedish public administration and the European employment strategy

Casula Vifell, Åsa - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 07

The aim of this paper is to understand how decision making processes within the EU comes to affect the structures for national policy making within the employment field. The paper addresses the question of how the process of writing new employment guidelines for the EES – European employment...

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Taming the ‘Trojan Horse’ of Comitology? Accountability issues of Comitology and the Role of the European Parliament

Neuhold, Christine - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The European Commission plays a major role as regulator in the process of implementation of European legislation. Just looking at the figures of implementing measures one will find that the Commission adopts more than 2.500 such legal acts per year. As is well known the Commission is not alone...

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Equal Opportunities between Men and Women and Gender Mainstreaming under the European Employment Strategy (EES) and the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) – A New Policy Approach to...

Braams, Beate - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 12

The aim of this article is to analyse the development of the concepts of equal opportunities between men and women and gender mainstreaming with regard to a new policy approach taken outside the traditional community method and to raise the question to what extent these policy instruments can be...

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Issue Salience and the Domestic Legitimacy Demands of European Integration. The Cases of Britain and Germany

Oppermann, Kai; Viehrig, Henrike - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The salience of European issues to the general public is a major determinant of the domestic legitimacy demands that … the legitimacy demands that governments have to meet on the domestic level. Whereas the domestic legitimacy of European … legitimacy demands when formulating their European policies than German governments. This may contribute to accounting for both …

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The dynamics of legitimation - Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism

Gaus, Daniel - RECON - 2011

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Public perceptions of the EU as a system of governance

Rohrschneider, Robert; Loveless, Matthew - In: Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG) (2011)

concerned with the supportive popular sentiment that underpins the EU’s legitimacy as a political institution. While there are …

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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

, its theoretical conceptualisation of effectiveness and legitimacy and related empirical findings. The main part of the … therefore raised as to its legitimacy. …

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