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Technocracy has come to be increasingly regarded as a threat to representative democracy. Significant attention has thus been recently devoted to exploring public preferences towards technocratic institutions. Elected policymakers’ attitudes have instead not been investigated as...
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A striking asymmetry defines the European Central Bank (ECB)’s approach to democratic accountability. Today’s ECB makes … time, the central bank continues to hew closely to the Treaty’s scarce democratic accountability provisions. In this … policy strategy has not been matched with enhanced accountability arrangements between the ECB and the European Parliament …
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regarding its focus range, to make it even more effective. In our view, the transparency/accountability issue represented by a … optimal degree of ECB transparency and accountability towards the EP, the key democratic institution. …
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After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central Bank decided to purchase European government bonds - to ensure an “orderly monetary policy transmission mechanism”. Many observers argued that, by bond purchases, national fiscal policies could...
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regarding its focus range, to make it even more effective. In our view, the transparency/accountability issue represented by a … optimal degree of ECB transparency and accountability towards the EP, the key democratic institution. …
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these challenges. Four legitimacy criteria - legal compatibility, accountability, representation and inclusion, and …
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