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Assessing Democracy in a Contested Polity
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In this paper, the authors conclude that a method is needed for assessing democracy in a political system where there is fundamental agreement on what would constitute adequately democratic institutions, and explore two suggestions for such a method: the development of well-specified indicators of democratic performance for contrasting ideal-types of Euro-democracy; and the attribution of self- and peer assessments to institutional actors with competing perspectives on democratic standards in the EU.Abstract:
After reviewing difficulties with the literature on the democratic deficit, this article concludes that a method is needed for assessing democracy in a political system where there is fundamental agreement on what would constitute adequately democratic institutions. It then goes on to explore two suggestions for such a method: the development of well-specified indicators of democratic performance for contrasting ideal-types of Euro-democracy; and the attribution of self- and peer assessments to institutional actors with competing perspectives on democratic standards in the EU.read more
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Legitimacy and/or policy effectiveness?: network governance and GMO regulation in the European Union
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the legitimation imperatives of EU-level regulatory governing, the institutional capacity to respond to these imperatives, and the resulting implications for policy effectiveness, arguing that both output and input legitimacy are necessary for authoritative supra-state regulation in certain policy domains.
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Civil society and legitimate European governance
TL;DR: The role of civil society organisations in the multi-level context of European governance is explored in this article, where the authors explore the concept of the civil society which over recent years has been revived and introduced into the institutional debate of the EU.
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EU governance and European identity
TL;DR: An overview of the research on European identity in the context of EU governance by focussing on central debates in the political science literature can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the functions of collective identity including the legitimation function and solution of collective dilemmas.
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Legitimate Diversity: The New Challenge of European Integration
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present debates on a European constitution should consider not only the legitimacy, but also the problem-solving effectiveness of EU decision-making, and propose to enhance European decisions respecting legitimate national diversity by improving the procedures of enhanced cooperation and open method of coordination.
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Democratic ‘Misfit’? Conceptions of Civil Society Participation in France and the European Union
TL;DR: This paper analyzed both theoretically and empirically the discourse and participatory processes in both the EU and France and found that the misfit between the European and French conception of democracy is less developed than one might believe.
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