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legitimacy-trap. An elected convention would probably be more democratic, because such an institution would be more public as …
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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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Due to collective action problems, the Eurozone is stuck in a sub-optimal macro-policy mix of too expansionary fiscal policy and too restrictive monetary policy. Although the Lisbon Strategy pays lip service to macro-economic policy coordination, no mechanisms, institutions or effective rules...
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-making processes as it is not only the quality of the outcomes that determine the democratic legitimacy of policy-making, but also the …
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Contributions in the normative debate on the legitimacy of the EU are frequently based on two premises: The first … nation-state, but cannot justify the legitimacy of the EU. Consequently, it is claimed that there is an urgent need to re …-set the standards by which we assess the legitimacy of European integration and of the institutions which guide the process …
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In this article, I outline an analytical framework allowing for an assessment of the democratic legitimacy of the …
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The December judgments of the ECJ in Viking and Laval on the compatibility of national collective labour law with European prerogatives have caused a quite heated critical debate. This paper seeks to put this debate in constitutional perspectives. In its first part it reconstructs in legal...
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In this paper we suggest a research agenda beyond the legitimation strategies of the CIDEL project (i.e. legitimation through outcomes, values and rights). The European Union has developed beyond that of international organisation and derivative democratic construct. But the step from negative...
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This paper proposes to assess the representative quality of European Union decision-making by way of a micro-approach which traces the effectiveness of the mechanisms of representation that connect the European peoples to the decision-making process. In particular, it proposes to distinguish...
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This paper seeks to contribute to the debate about the role of norms in EU foreign policy by looking at EU policies in the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the making of a Consolidated Maritime Labour Convention (ILOMLC). Given the economic importance of shipping for many EU members,...
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