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Democracy and exchange rate regime choice

Russell, J. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 1 (2008) 4, pp. 339-354

This paper takes a new look at the relationship between democracy and exchange rate regimes. Evidence from a cluster …

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Nothing but consultation: The place of organised civil society in EU policy-making across policies

Kröger, Sandra - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2008

gap between the EU and its citizens, as materialised in the EU-discourse of participatory democracy. On the basis of an … particular in the following policy fields: social affairs, health, consumer protection, environment, and trade as well as in the …. Furthermore, there is little empirical evidence that would confirm the normative expectations of deliberative democracy. …

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Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the European Union

Sabel, Charles F.; Zeitlin, Jonathan - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2007

This paper argues that current widespread characterizations of EU governance as multi-level and networked overlook the emergent architecture of the Union’s public rule making. In this architecture, framework goals (such as full employment, social inclusion, “good water status”, a unified...

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Analysing and Assessing Public Accountability. A Conceptual Framework

Bovens, Mark - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2006

It has been argued that the European Union suffers from serious accountability deficits. But how can we establish the existence of accountability deficits? This paper tries to get to grips with the appealing but elusive concept of accountability by asking three types of questions, thus providing...

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Social Europe and Experimentalist Governance: Towards a New Constitutional Compromise?

Zeitlin, Jonathan - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2005

democracy), before going on to assess the findings of recent empirical research on its effectiveness in terms of policy change …

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Theories and core principles of Dutch democracy

Michels, Ank - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2007

participation constitutes the fundamental tenet of democracy; in others, democracy is closely linked to pluralism and the protection … Dutch democracy that are reflected in the democratic system? Five core principles are distinguished, each of which has been … institutionalised in various ways. The second question is: which ideas on democracy of key political thinkers of the 19th and early 20th …

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Notes Towards a Theory of Multilevel Governing in Europe

Scharpf, Fritz W. - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies - 2000

AbstractThe complexity of the multi-level European polity is not adequately represented by the single-level theoretical concepts of competing intergovernmentalist and supranationalist approaches. By contrast, empirical research focusing on mul-tilevel interactions tends either to emphasize the...

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Taxation and Democracy in the EU

Ganghof, Steffen; Genschel, Philipp - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies - 2007

Abstract Is corporate tax competition a threat to democracy in the EU? The answer dependscrucially on a positive …

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Democracy and the European Constitution: Majority Voting and Small Member States

Pollak, Johannes - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2004

the intrinsic relation between majority voting and democracy. …

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Removing conceptual blinders: Under what conditions does the ‘democratic deficit’ affect institutional design decisions?

Rittberger, Berthold - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2003

This paper pursues two objectives, one theoretical the other empirical. First, by keeping separate two grand strands in the EU studies literature, one on the design and reform of EU institutions and the other on the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’, EU scholars are foreclosing the opportunity to...

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