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Improving EU Constitutional Politics? A Preliminary Assessment of the Convention

Closa, Carlos - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2003

The Convention appears to many as both a confirmation of the thesis of the new institutionalism on the value of institutions for shaping the outcome of constitutional politics (the politics of creating EU fundamental rules) and a new model for democratic deliberative politics. From this second...

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Democracy and the European Constitution: Majority Voting and Small Member States

Pollak, Johannes - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2004

The purpose of this article is to shed light on the relation between large and small member states with regard to the majority principle. Since Maastricht at the latest the institutional discussion centers around the question of how to devise a decision system which pays equal attention to the...

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Removing conceptual blinders: Under what conditions does the ‘democratic deficit’ affect institutional design decisions?

Rittberger, Berthold - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2003

This paper pursues two objectives, one theoretical the other empirical. First, by keeping separate two grand strands in the EU studies literature, one on the design and reform of EU institutions and the other on the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’, EU scholars are foreclosing the opportunity to...

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The Problem of Legitimacy in the European Polity. Is Democratization the Answer?

Offe, Claus; Preuss, Ulrich K. - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2006

The authors discuss potential sources of legitimacy of the EU, i. e. of the normative bindingness of its decisions …. After rejecting the views that such legitimacy is either not needed, not feasible, or provided for already, they focus upon … the corrosive impact of the EU upon democratic legitimacy within member states. Brussels-based 'governance' is essentially …

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Pathos and Patina: The Failure and Promise of Constitutionalism in the European Imagination

Haltern, Ulrich - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2002

Legal studies react to the Union’s social legitimacy deficit either by funneling the problem into empirical sociology …

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The Function of a European Basic Law: a Question of Legitimacy

Harbo, Tor-Inge - University of Bath, Department of European Studies and … - 2007

of the European basic law and its corresponding concept of legitimacy – ever forming and reforming overlapping …

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