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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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Bringing European democracy back in – Or how to read the German Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling

Eriksen, Erik O.; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2010

This article critically examines the democratic theory that informs the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling. This is needed because the ruling is ambiguous with regard to what democracy for what Union. In order to analyse the ruling we establish three models of what...

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Representation through deliberation. The European case

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011

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Representation through deliberation. The European case

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011

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Europe in Search of its Legitimacy - Assessing Strategies of Legitimation

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2002

How can the EU rectify its legitimacy deficit? On the basis of three logics of political integration we identify … explicit strategies for how the legitimacy deficit of the EU can be remedied. The first strategy amounts to a scaling down of … purpose organisation. Here the EU’s own legitimacy is held to be dependent on its performance and on the legitimacy of the …

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The European Charter - Between deep Diversity and Constitutional Patriotism?

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the type of allegiance that the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union is based on. Charters as Bills of Rights establish or entrench fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law, and the relevant sense of allegiance and attachment...

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The EU’s fledgling society: From deafening silence to critical voice in European constitution making

Fossum, John Erik; Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2005

The European Union is presently at a major crossroads. The Laeken process which launched the EU onto an explicit constitution-making process, has ground to a halt after the negative referendum results in France and the Netherlands. The European Council at its 16-17 June 2005 meeting decided to...

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De-configuring the European Union: A comparative approach

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2004

This article discusses the question of the EU's uniqueness. This issue is of particular importance when considered in relation to the nation-state. Uniqueness can then be considered as a case of departure from or transformation of the nation-state. The EU has emerged with a complex mixture of...

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Conceptualising the EU's social constituency

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2004

The EU is often labelled a unique entity. This assertion is more the product of assessments of its institutional character than on the nature of its social constituency, i.e. the structure of demands and expectations that citizens and groups place on the EU. Determining the character of the...

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The Constitution’s Gift? A deliberative democratic analysis of constitution-making in the European Union

Fossum, John Erik; Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

implications for its democratic legitimacy. In light of recent events, we consider how procedural changes in constitution … step, we consider what contribution constitution-making might make to the handling of the EU’s legitimacy deficit(s). This …

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