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Issue Salience and the Domestic Legitimacy Demands of European Integration. The Cases of Britain and Germany
Oppermann, Kai; Viehrig, Henrike - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04
The salience of European issues to the general public is a major determinant of the domestic legitimacy demands that governments face when they devise their European policies. The higher the salience of these issues, the more restrictive will be the legitimacy demands that governments have to...
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Adopting the Euro in Post-Communist Countries: An Analysis of the Attitudes toward the Single Currency
Allam, Miriam S.; Goerres, Achim - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies - 2008
accession. Their next challenge is the entry to the eurozone. Thus, the dynamics of public opinion toward the euro become …-level survey data from eight countries and conclude that the combined model best explains variations in support for the euro. In an … euro support. Thus, distributional issues matter less than the aggregate national performance and experience. Political …
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European and National Identities in EU's Old and New Member States: Ethnic, Civic, Instrumental and Symbolic Components
Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia M.; Górniak, Jaroslaw Jósef; … - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07
In this paper we empirically test three of the most significant theories about the emergence of a European identity. The three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being based on ethno-cultural factors generated through a...
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Beyond the Community Method: Why the Open Method of Coordination Was Introduced to EU Policy-making
Schäfer, Armin - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 09
this writing fails to put the OMC into the broader context of EMU; in contrast, this paper links the Amsterdam employment … contents of the Employment Title were determined by EMU, its form the OMC by social democratic reluctance to transfer power to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969272
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In the Shadow of the Constitution: Common Foreign and Security Policy/European Security and Defence Policy Adapting to a Changing External Environment
Nickel, Dietmar; Quille, Gerrard - Jean Monnet Chair - 2007
Abstract: The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is understood as an important new "instrument" in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) "toolbox", designed to respond to the contemporary security environment as well as to overcome the inaction and hesitancy of the past....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611148
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Altneuland : The EU Constitution in a Contextual Perspective
Walker, Neil; Pettit, Philip; Sajo, Andras; Tushnet, Mark; … - Jean Monnet Chair - 2004
Altneuland: The European Constitutional Terrain It is in many respects a New Land - for the first time the Union is openly, officially using the word Constitution in its formal self-understanding. But this, in turn, places it, at least lexically, in the age old terrain of constitutionalism which...
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Populism in the first European elections in the Czech Republic
Pitrová, Markéta - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 03
The paper seeks to examine the phenomenon of populism in connection with the first EP elections in the Czech Republic (CZ). It aspires to answer the question whether the first EP elections can be described as populist and, if yes, then owing to which parties. It gives a basic overview of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969286
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On the politicization of the European consociation: A middle way between Hix and Bartolini
Magnette, Paul; Papadopoulos, Yannis - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2008
A debate has emerged between S. Hix and S. Bartolini on the plausibility and desirability of the politicization of the EU. By this it is usually meant a more important role for mass, competitive, and partisan politics both on the input- (expression of preferences) and on the output-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040474
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Religions, secularity and democracy in Europe: for a new Kelsenian pact
Ferrari, Alessandro - Jean Monnet Chair - 2005
Abstract: In Europe the public role of the religions appears to be directly proportional to the fall in trust in the procedural mechanisms at the basis of the liberal democracies. Compared to the strong identities attributed to the United States and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of...
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Shifting paradigms: Reflecting Germanys European policy
Knodt, Michèle; Staeck, Nicola - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 03
Germany's presidency of the European Council in the first half of 1999 has focused the attention of schlolars on Germany's attitude towards the EU. Germany's European policy has been guided from the beginning by a pro-European vision of 'the house of Europe'. The hypothesis of the article is...
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