Webpages tagged with «deliberative democracy»
In this paper, Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and pluri-lingual setting, relying on a solid set of both quantitative and qualitative data from EuroPolis.
ARENA Working Paper 13/2010 (pdf)
Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz
In this paper, the author adopts a pragmatist approach to the European transformation from an order of largely independent nation-states to an integrated order with some capacity to rule in the name of all.
ARENA Working Paper 07/2010 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
What kind of democracy is required to mend the EU's legitimacy deficit? This paper discusses the merits of different models of deliberative democracy, looking in particular on the criteria for legitimate constitutional discourse.
ARENA Working Paper 08/2006 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
The paper treats the classic question of EU legitimacy and debates whether the convention establishing a Constitutional Treaty for Europe has managed to overcome the EU legitimacy deficit. Deliberative theory is applied to evaluate the constitutional process, concluding that the convention by way of increasing reflexivity managed to redress some of the aspects of this deficit.
ARENA Working Paper 04/2005 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum
Does the process towards an EU constitution amount to Europe's constitutional moment? This paper discusses the Convention and ensuing debates in the light of normative political theory.
ARENA Working Paper 18/2005 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez
What is the relative weight of bargaining and arguing in the formation of EU foreign policy? Based on empirical data, this paper lends credence to the deliberative claim that there is more to negotiation than give and take; states may change their set of preferences by way of a learning process where even small actors may be pivotal.
ARENA Working Paper 31/2005 (pdf)
Børge Romsloe
This article discusses whether deliberation and decision-making on the constitutional norms of the EU can contribute to render it more democratic. Observing the procedural changes to constitution-making introduced with Laeken (notably the Convention), it is argued in the paper that such changes have made some progress towards rectifying the Union's legitimacy deficit.
ARENA Working Paper 13/2005 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum & Agustín José Menéndez