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Nothing but consultation: The place of organised civil society in EU policy-making across policies

Kröger, Sandra - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2008

legitimacy. With regard to the EU, participation of civil society organisations are officially seen as a means of bridging the … legitimacy of the EU and is instrumental to institutional power games of the European Commission and the European Parliament …

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Representation through deliberation. The European case

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 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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A New Kind of Legitimacy for a New Kind of Parliament The Evolution of the European Parliament

Wessels, Wolfgang; Diedrichs, Udo - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 04

The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …

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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 - RECON - 2011

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The Perils of Committee Governance: Intergovernmental Bargaining during the BSE Scandal in the European Union

Krapohl, Sebastian; Zurek, Karolina - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 10 (2006) 05

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate between principal-agent theory and the concept of deliberative supranationalism regarding the functioning of the EU committee system by analysing regulatory policy-making in the BSE case. The BSE crisis can be seen as a critical instance for committee...

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How leader states influence EU policy-making: Analysing the expert strategy

Haverland, Markus - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 12

Research focusing on the leader-laggard dynamic in EU policy-making has significantly contributed to our understanding of why EU policies often go beyond the least common denominator and why policies look the way they do. The literature has also provided plausible arguments about the incentives...

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Internet @ Europe: Overcoming institutional fragmentation and policy failure

Werle, Raymund - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 06

For more than a decade the Internet was confronted with ignorance and resistance in many European countries. National and European technology policies were unfavorable to not invented here technologies and committed to open networks of a different kind. The incumbent network operators in...

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Two Worlds of Europeanisation Unpacking Models of Government Innovation and Transgovernmental Imitation

Trondal, Jarle - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 01

Whereas domestic public policy is increasingly penetrated by international organisations, domestic government institutions seem less adaptive. This puzzle triggers the following question: To what extent is the Europeanisation of domestic Research and Higher Educational policy (R&E policy)...

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The anatomy of EU policy-making: Appointing the experts

Field, Mark - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 17 (2013) 07

At 38,000, the total number of staff at the European Commission is relatively small for a body representing half a billion citizens. Likewise, the 3,500 strong research and statistical team is modest in size given that it operates across the Directorates General and other services. In order to...

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