democratic deficit
Performed and preferred participation in science and technology across Europe: Exploring an alternative idea of "democratic deficit"
... a democratic deficit in decision making related to science and ...knowledge deficit on the side of the public, but increasingly tends to emphasize a deficit of mutual trust and ...
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Opposition to the TTIP in the EU and the US: Implications for the EU’s “democratic deficit”
... 6 transatlantic marketplace. (This is important consideration because if the EU revived the idea of a transatlantic trade partnership, why then would opposition be associated with Europe?) The third part discusses three ...
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"Citizen Support for the European Parliament: Knowledge and the Democratic Deficit"
... Beyond the public, controversy is widespread among European Union elites--officials, parliamentarians and academic experts-- about the present and future roles of the EP (Shackleton 1994a, 1994b). Changes in the EP's ...
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The European Union’s Democratic Deficit and Options for EU Democracy in the 21st Century EU Centre Singapore Working Paper No 22, August 2014
... Resolving the root causes of the democratic deficit is a priority, but any options developed will have to take into account several factors. First, while some political changes are desirable for democracy, ...
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Why the EU´s constitutionalization and parliamentarization are worsening the existing democratic deficit in European foreign and defence policies. JMWP No. 59.06, February 2006
... apply, democratic principles in such an explicit, consistent, and comprehensive ...a deficit. The empirical evidence that confirms that there is a democratic deficit (or better various ...
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Does Banking Union Worsen the EU's Democratic Deficit? The Need for Greater Supervisory Data Transparency
... Union’s democratic deficit? Using Scharpf’s ‘input’ and ‘output’ legitimacy concepts, it is argued in this article that its design does worsen the democratic ...
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"The Democratic Deficit in the EU’s Security and Defense Policy - why bother?"
... Europe’s democratic deficit has had a clear focus on the politics of common market governance the impact of which citizens feel most ...the democratic control of security policy may not be surprising ...
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In Defense of the “Democratic Deficit”: Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union. CES Working Paper, no. 92, 2003
... When judged by the practices of existing nation-states and in the context of a multi-level system, there is little evidence that the EU suffers from a fundamental democratic deficit. This is not to say that ...
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The Europe Direct Network Are Europe Direct Information Relays an Adequate Means to Fight the Perceived Democratic Deficit? : Experiences From the German Network
... his thesis examines whether Europe Direct information relays are an adequate means to fight the perceived democratic deficit. Devised by the European Commission as a means to close the gap between the ...
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Gramsci in Brussels : alternative perspectives on the democratic deficit of the European Union
... Coming back to the European Union, the Gramscian approach to democracy leads to a critical analysis of dominant discourses and of their constituting power relations and interest. Neo- Gramscians endorse a dialectical ...
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The European Citizens’ Initiative: A Solution to the Democratic Deficit?
... the democratic deficit is that the discussion in the political arena does not compare to the cleavages in society, therefore, there is a failure of political ...
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"Discontinuity: Another Source for the EU’s Democratic Deficit?"
... EU’s democratic deficit that has raised attention to the powers of the EP, few insights and – to my knowledge – no empirical study exist on the discontinuity potential induced by the two-stage process of EU ...
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National Parliaments and their Role in European Integration: The EU’s Democratic Deficit in Times of Economic Hardship and Political Insecurity. Bruges Political Research Paper 28/2013
... of democratic control regarding the most important political ...The democratic deficit within the European Union is mainly associated with the powers of the European Parliament (the narrow meaning), ...
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Is there a Democratic Deficit in World Politics? A Framework for Analysis
... the democratic legitimacy of a real-world international institution is as much social scientific as ...Any democratic metric derived from ideal theory must therefore be ‘calibrated’ in order to assess ...
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Spitzenkandidaten and the Democratic Deficit: How has the Rise and Repudiation of the Spitzenkandidaten Impacted the EU's Perceived Democratic Deficit between 2014 & 2019?
... social democratic theory may deem the 2014 Spitzenkandidaten more democratically legitimate as the European Green Party elected Ska Keller, in conjunction with José Bové, as the first potential female Commission ...
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Citizens' deliberations and the EU democratic deficit. Is there a model for participatory democracy? TAIF Nr. 1/2009
... In terms of impact the ECC‐EU seems to have had a much better impact than the MoM‐EDC. One reasons for this is, so I assume, the more general and highly up‐to‐date topic. Impact is very difficult to measure and can mean ...
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The Economics of the Democratic Deficit: The Effect of IMF Programs on Inequality
... 9 One of these efforts is to increasingly grant non-governmental transnational actors (TNAs) access to IOs' decision-making processes (Steffek, Kissling, and Nanz 2008). An index developed by Tallberg et al. (2014) ...
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Fixing the EU Democratic Deficit: An Instrumental View of Citizenship?
... The public was mainly put in in front of a well-organized show in which, as in ‘interactive’ broadcasts, the audience can push a button and see the result of the votes appearing almost simultaneously. Citizens appeared ...
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Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik
... social democratic concern is insufficient insofar as the status quo of no-agreement does not secure ‘centrist’ but rather right- of-centre outcomes, as the near-constitutional status of market freedoms ...
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Democratic Freedom of Expression
... The democratic theory of freedom of expression says that people have the right to express any view they may wish to express that does not constitute an act of domination against ...The democratic conception ...
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