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The Europeanisation of Parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe

Guasti, Petra - RECON - 2011

The role and functioning of the upper chambers of Central and Eastern European (CEE) parliaments have for a long time been a minor topic on the research agenda of legislative specialists. This paper seeks to fill the gap in existing research by aiming to determine the main effects caused by the...

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When quantity matters: Activity levels and re-election prospects of Members of the European Parliament

Sigalas, Emmanuel - RECON - 2011

incentives to maximise MEPs’ performance in the EP. On the other, MEPs may wish to prove to their European political group, their … hierarchy.The paper focuses on the quantitative aspect of MEPs’ work in the EP. As sensationalist evidence on MEPs performance … media have often picked up how many reports, resolutions and questions MEPs have drafted in order to distinguish between …

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Reconstituting Political Representation in the EU: The analytical framework and the operationalisation of the RECON models

Emmanuel Sigalas, Monika Mokre, Johannes Pollak, Jozef … - RECON - 2009

In this paper we elaborate on the analytical framework linking the three RECON democracy models to political representation and claims-making during the European elections campaign. Relying on the models of delegated, federal and regional-cosmopolitan democracy as ideal-types we develop a...

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The politics of justification? Applying the ‘discourse quality index’ to the study of the European Parliament

Lord, Christopher; Tamvaki, Dionysia - RECON - 2011

Parliament. At the same time we demonstrate that institutional issues matter for the quality of EP discourse much like MEPs …

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Contesting EU Legitimacy: The Prominence, Content and Justification of Euroscepticism During 2009 EP Election Campaigns

Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - RECON - 2010

This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy contestation. Support of and opposition to European integration have so far been mainly measured through the positions of political parties or citizens’ attitudes through public opinion...

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Using Eurobarometer data on voter participation in the 2004 European elections to test the RECON models

Tamvaki, Dionysia - RECON - 2009

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Decision-making void of democratic qualities?An evaluation of the EU’s foreign and security policy

Stie, Anne Elizabeth - RECON - 2008

The EU’s foreign and security policy is often criticised for being undemocratic. The article addresses this contention from the perspective of deliberative democracy. The focus is on the procedural qualities of the second pillar decision-making processes as it is not only the quality of the...

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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...

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Assessing democratic legitimacy from a deliberative perspective: An analytical framework for evaluating the EU’s second pillar decision-making system

Stie, Anne Elizabeth - RECON - 2007

In this article, I outline an analytical framework allowing for an assessment of the democratic legitimacy of the decision-making system of the EU’s second pillar with reference to five criteria. The criteria are developed on the basis of a discourse-theoretical reading of a deliberative...

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RECON: A Feminist View

Sara Clavero, Yvonne Galligan, Cathrine Holst, Róza Vajda - RECON - 2011

This paper examines the three models of democracy delineated in the RECON project and subjects them to a feminist appraisal. It begins with some general remarks about what each model of democracy – nation-state audit (model 1), federal multinational (model 2) and regional cosmopolitan (model...

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