Webpages tagged with «democracy» - Page 2
This paper discusses the usefulness of reflexive reason-giving as an approach to transnational and supranational systems of governance. It is argued that deliberation must be supplemented with law and trust as resources for collective action.
ARENA Working Paper 20/2004 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Cathrine Holst has co-authored this article in Social Epistemology with Anders Molander. They discuss the conditions for legitimate expert arrangements within a democratic order and from a deliberative systems approach.
What will be the final outcome of the European election and how will this affect Norway? Prominent researchers, journalists and politicians will discuss this during our event at Arendalsuka.
ENROL studies what the EU and its member states can do to contain, reverse and prevent democratic backsliding and rule of law regression.
This paper is on whether the parameters of power politics in Europe are changing and whether the EU can be described as a cosmopolitan polity in the making. In other words: Is it the case that the popular sovereignty principe must yield to fundamental human rights?
ARENA Working Paper 09/2005 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
What lessons can be drawn from European integration when it comes to balancing unity and diversity?
ARENA Working Paper 24/2005 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen
In this article Trenz argues that the tension between normative standards and legitimating practice should be considered as constitutive for the emergence of a European public sphere. Against recent attempts to define the European public sphere in purely descriptive terms, this implies the need to re-introduce the normativity of the public sphere as part of the dynamics of an evolving communicative space in Europe.
ARENA Working Paper 12/2008 (pdf)
Hans-Jörg Trenz
This paper contributes to the philosophical exchanges of Nussbaum’s version of the capability approach. Nussbaum herself presents her contribution as an alternative to John Rawls’ theory of justice, and following her lead, this paper compares Nussbaum and Rawls.
ARENA Working Paper 16/2010 (pdf)
Cathrine Holst
This paper scrutinises MacCormick’s liberal nationalism. It is argued that a cosmopolitan constitutional patriotism might be a more suitable mode of allegiance for the post-sovereign constellation.
ARENA Working Paper 3/2011 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum
In this paper, Pieter de Wilde, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou analyse Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy contestation.
ARENA Working Paper 14/2010 (pdf)
Pieter de Wilde, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou
This is Erik O. Eriksens introduction to ARENA’s annual lecture May 2 2012: Challenges to Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Europe, held by Professor Seyla Benhabib.
In this guest blog post, professor Christopher Lord of ARENA gives an alternative take on how to understand the struggle behind the Brexit negotiations.
Can there be democracy beyond the nation state, and in that case: which democracy for Europe?
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
This paper evaluates the mediatizing potential of the internet on the politics of European integration and the process of enhancing the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) through an analysis of online debates during the 2009 EU elections.
ARENA Working Paper 06/2010 (pdf)
Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz
The paper critically examines the democratic theory that informs the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling, and argues that the ruling and the justification speak to several – distinctly different – models of democracy.
ARENA Working Paper 09/2010 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
This essay reviews a recent volume on globalization, marketisation and the challenges these developments pose to democratic political theory and practice at the turn of the century.
ARENA Working Paper 23/1999 (html)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
In this paper, the authors confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and plurilingual setting. To illustrate their argument, they rely on a solid set of both quantitative and qualitative data from Europolis, a transnational deliberative experiment that took place one week ahead of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections.
ARENA Working Paper 9/2011 (pdf)
Irena Fiket, Espen D. H. Olsen, Hans-Jörg Trenz
In this article, we critically discuss the issues of discursive quality and democratic legitimacy in deliberative experiments taking place in a transnational and pluri-lingual setting.
ARENA Working Paper 12/2011 (pdf)
Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz