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The quality of democracy in the Czech Republic

Mansfeldová, Zdenka; Guasti, Petra Rakušanová - RECON - 2010

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Public Spheres within Movements: Challenging the (Re)search for a European Public Sphere

Haug, Christoph - RECON - 2008

The emergence of a transnational public sphere in Europe is expected to facilitate democratic control and public debate about European issues as well as enable the formation of a European collective identity. Taking this claim seriously, though, reveals that empirical research has so far taken a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040529

The European democratic challenge

Menéndez, Agustín José - RECON - 2007

In this paper, I explore in a systematic manner the different components of the democratic legitimacy of the Union from the standpoint of deliberative democratic theory. Contrary to standard accounts, I claim that the question must be disaggregated, given that the Union has not only several...

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The democratic deficit in the EU’s security and defense policy – why bother?

Wagner, Wolfgang - RECON - 2007

refrain from participation in a military mission even in the absence of domestic public support. Students of European …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040500

Adversary or ‘depoliticized’ institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention

Hüller, Thorsten - RECON - 2007

This paper is about a counterfactual empirical assumption: If the Laeken convention had been elected, we would have had a more democratic as well as a more legitimate process of European constitution making. Electing conventioneers and re-opening the convention is probably a successful way to...

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Regional federalisation with a cosmopolitan intent

Mikalsen, Kjartan Koch - RECON - 2009

This paper deals with the issue of institutionalising a legal pacifistic international order. While Kant’s idea of perpetual peace serves as the point of departure, it is argued that in order to find a proper institutional arrangement one would have to look beyond the two notions found in...

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Assessing Gender Democracy in the European Union. A Methodological Framework

Galligan, Yvonne; Clavero, Sara - RECON - 2008

This paper presents a methodological framework for assessing the quality of democracy in the European Union from a … Democracy in Europe (RECON). After describing the general background to the development of this methodology, the paper discusses … ‘gender democracy’? What are the purposes of this assessment? How can we move from abstract concepts such as gender democracy …

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Integration without democracy? Three conceptions of European Security Policy in transformation

Sjursen, Helene - RECON - 2007

accountability. But in order to properly assess the state of democracy in this policy field it is necessary first to define the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040506

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - RECON - 2009

demos of a European democracy. Against the common view that holds the self-identified political community as prior and … independent of constitutional designing, it is claimed that democracy rather operates through the identification of popular …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040508

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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