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Title:Democratic legitimacy in EU fiscal and macroeconomic policy : an overview from parties’ manifestos Author(s):CLOSA, Carlos

; FERNÁNDEZ-ALBERTOS, José; GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN, FelipeDate:2020Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies; RECONNECT Deliverable; 2020/D.10.1Abstract:This working paper examines the difficulty in balancing the key underlying principles of EU fiscal and macroeconomic policy in a context of growing public contestation against the so-called austerity and the lack of fiscal ...

Title:The democratic legitimacy of international Human Rights conventions : political constitutionalism and the European Convention on Human Rights Author(s):BELLAMY, Richard (Richard Paul)

Date:2014Citation:European journal of international law, 2014, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 1019-1042Type:ArticleAbstract:International Human Rights Courts (IHRCts), such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), have come under increasing criticism as being incompatible with domestic judicial and legislative mechanisms for upholding ...

Title:The democratic legitimacy of international Human Rights conventions : political constitutionalism and the Hirst case Author(s):BELLAMY, Richard (Richard Paul)

Date:2014Citation:Andreas FØLLESDAL, Johan KARLSSON SCHAFFER and Geir ULFSTEIN (eds), The legitimacy of international Human Rights regimes : legal, political and philosophical perspectives, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 243-271Type:Contribution to book

Title:Democratic legitimacy of the CETA and TTIP Agreements? Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich

Date:2017Citation:Thilo RENSMANN (ed.), Mega-regional trade agreements and the future of international trade and investment law, Heidelberg : Springer, 2017, pp. 37-59Type:Contribution to book

Title:The Democratic Legitimacy of Urban Planning Procedures: Public private partnerships in Turin and Zurich Author(s):STRÖBELE, Maarit FelicitasDate:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:CIS Working Paper; 2009/45Abstract:Many European cities are faced with the task of transforming former industrial zones into new residential and commercial neighbourhoods. Such urban planning processes frequently include both public and private sector actors ...

Title:Democratic legitimacy though European Conflicts-law? : the case of EU administrative governance of GMOs Author(s):WEIMER, MariaDate:2012Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; LAW; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis aims at addressing the problem of a potential dis-embedding of the EU administration from democratic institutions. For that purpose it explores the potential of a novel approach to EU constitutionalism, namely ...

Title:A democratic panopticon as citizen involvement in EU decision-making Author(s):NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso

Date:2021Type:VideoSeries/Number:RSCAS; 2021; Conversations for the Future of Europe; Online lecture 1Abstract:Deepening the reach of democracy remains what it has been for the last 200 years: the expansion of the franchise. But franchise does not necessarily express itself through the right to vote in elections in the context of ...

Title:Democratic party government : formation and functioning in twenty-one countries Author(s):BUDGE, IanDate:1982Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1982Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI Working Papers; 016

Title:The democratic production of political cohesion : partisanship, institutional design and life form Author(s):BELLAMY, Richard (Richard Paul)

; BONOTTI, Matteo; CASTIGLIONE, Dario; LACEY, Joseph; NÄSSTRÖM, Sofia; OWEN, David; WHITE, JonathanDate:2019Citation:Contemporary political theory, 2019, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 282–310Type:ArticleAbstract:What binds a democratic society together? This would seem a well-rehearsed topic in modern political theory, but on closer scrutiny, it may appear less so. If we reformulate the question, it may become clearer why: what ...

Title:The democratic qualities of courts : a critical analysis of three arguments Author(s):BELLAMY, Richard (Richard Paul)

Date:2013Citation:Representation, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 333-346Type:ArticleAbstract:The democratic critique of judicial review by constitutional courts has prompted its defenders to counter that courts have democratic qualities as good as, and in certain respects even stronger than, conventional democratic ...

Title:Democratic reform and opposition to government expenditure : evidence from nineteenth-century Britain Author(s):CHAPMAN, Jonathan

Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2016/21Abstract:Several theories have argued that democratic reform will lead to higher government spending. However, these theories have generally focused on expenditure on redistribution rather than expenditure on public goods. This ...

Title:Democratic representation and religion : differences and convergences between the European parliament and the US house of representatives Author(s):FORET, François

Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/58; RELIGIOWESTAbstract:It is common to oppose a secular Europe to a religious America. As representatives of cultural diversity and popular sovereignty, Parliaments are the best illustrations of mutual arrangements between politics and religion. ...

Title:Democratic representation in mobile societies Author(s):BAUBÖCK, Rainer

Date:2017Citation:Anna TRIANDAFYLLIDOU (ed.), Multicultural governance in a mobile world, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp. 283-306Type:Contribution to bookSeries/Number:[Global Governance Programme]; [Cultural Pluralism]Abstract:Multiculturalism and transnationalism have transformed the traditional assimilationist and statist perspectives of immigrant integration studies. Yet these progressive approaches have not fully addressed the new challenges ...

Title:Democratic respect in times of crisis : the case of the Next Generation EU fund Author(s):NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso

Date:2023Citation:Annette BONGARDT and Francisco TORRES (eds), The political economy of Europe’s future and identity : integration in crisis mode, Florence : European University Institute, 2023, pp. 30-42Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Crisis may generate policies that open new political vistas, pushing back the limits of the possible, or on the contrary policies that constrain our collective agency, giving defenders of the existing order a pretext on ...

Title:Democratic socialism or social democracy? : the influence of the British Labour Party and the Parti Socialiste Français in the ideological transformation of the Partido Socialista Português and the Partido Socialista Obrero Español in the mid-1970s Author(s):GRANADINO, AlanDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis investigates the link between the ideological transformations experienced by the Spanish and Portuguese Socialist Parties (PSOE and PS) in the mid-1970s and the relations of these parties with the British Labour ...

Title:Democratic spaces for post-conflict reconciliation : lessons from citizens' assemblies in Bosnia and Herzegovina Author(s):NESOVIC, Teona

Date:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; STG; Master Thesis; 2023Abstract:What comes first – reconciliation or democracy? Societies that are recovering from conflicts and transitioning to democracy are juggling the two important elements. Deliberative democracy can be a solution. In this paper, ...

Title:Democratic theory and neo-corporatist practice Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.

Date:1983Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1983Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI Working Papers; 1983/074

Title:The democratic yardstick : how the United States transformed the grammar of international relations in 20th century Author(s):ROMERO, Federico

Date:2015Citation:Marcello FANTONI and Leonardo MORLINO (eds), The American exceptionalism revisited, 2015, Roma : Viella, pp. 57-76Type:Contribution to book

Title:Democratic-theory and individual autonomy : an interpretation of Schumpeter doctrine of democracy Author(s):SANTORO, EmilioDate:1993Citation:European journal of political research, 1993, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 121-143Type:ArticleAbstract:Schumpeter argued that the norms of what he called the 'classical' theory were unrealisable within modern societies and offered what he believed to be a more realistic alternative. However, his critics accuse him of confusing ...