Webpages tagged with « constitution building»

Assessing the attempts to forge a Constitution for Europe, this article focuses on the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. While clearly legitimate to a post-national democracy and the idea of a constitution, rights should nevertheless be right in the sense of resting on a popular-discursive consensus.

ARENA Working Paper 17/2003 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen

This paper assesses the preliminary achievements as well as the potential of the Convention installed to draw a framework for the future of the European Union.

ARENA Working Paper 04/2003 (pdf)

Ben Crum

This paper examines challenges and opportunities linked to democratisaton by constitutionalisation, drawing parrallels between the emerging European polity and experience from comparable entities such as Canada.

ARENA Working Paper 10/2006 (pdf)

John Erik Fossum

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

This paper seeks to clarify the empirical and normative contents of juridifaction by drawing a line between five analytical dimensions of the term.

ARENA Working Paper 14/2005 (pdf)

Lars Chr. Blichner and Anders Molander