RECON Online Working Papers (2007-2011)

2011

• 2011/01 Radostina Primova: Enhancing the Democratic Legitimacy of EU Governance? The Impact of Online Public Consultations in Energy Policy-Making.
• 2011/02 Agustín José Menéndez: From Constitutional Pluralism to a Pluralistic Constitution? Constitutional Synthesis as a MacCormickian Constitutional Theory of European Integration.
• 2011/03 Christopher Lord and Dionysia Tamvaki: The Politics of Justification? Applying the 'Discourse Quality Index' to the Study of the European Parliament.
• 2011/04 Mihály Csákó: Education for Democracy in Hungarian Schools.
• 2011/05 Olga Brzezińska, Beata Czajkowska and David Skully: Re-constructing Polish Identity . Searching for a New Language.
• 2011/06 Agustín José Menéndez: United they Diverge? From Conflict of Laws to Constitutional Theory? On Christian Joerges' Theory.
• 2011/07 John Erik Fossum: Nationalism, Patriotism and Diversity. Conceptualising the National Dimension in Neil MacCormick's Post-sovereign Constellation.
• 2011/08 Eric Miklin and Ben Crum: Inter-Parliamentary Contacts of Members of the European Parliament . Report of a Survey.
• 2011/09 Hauke Brunkhorst: Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Freedom.
• 2011/10 Espen D. H. Olsen: European Citizenship. With a Nation-State, Federal, or Cosmopolitain Twist?
• 2011/11 Petra Guasti: The Europeanisation of Parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe.
• 2011/12 Rainer Forst: Transnational Justice and Democracy.
• 2011/13 Nora Fisher Onar: 'Europe', 'Womanhood' and 'Islam'. Re-aligning Contested Concepts via the Headscarf Debate.
• 2011/14 Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum: Representation Through Deliberation. The European Case.
• 2011/15 Daniel Gaus: The Dynamics of Legitimation. Why the Study of Political Legitimacy Needs More Realism.
• 2011/16 Daniel Gaus: The State's Existence between Facts and Norms. A Reflection on Some Problems to the Analysis of the State.
• 2011/17 Emmanuel Sigalas: When Quantity Matters. Activity Levels and Re-Election Prospects of Members of the European Parliament.
• 2011/18 Tess Altman and David G. Mayes: Democratic Boundaries in the US and Europe. Inequality, Localisation and Voluntarism in Social Welfare Provision.
• 2011/19 Dirk Peters: A Divided Union? Public Opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy.
• 2011/20 Meltem Müftüler-Baç: The European Union and Turkey. Democracy, Multiculturalism and European Identity.
• 2011/21 Merzuka Selin Türkeş: Human Rights in the European Union's Foreign Policy. Universal in Discourse, Flexible in Practice.
• 2011/22 Guri Rosén: Can You Keep a Secret? How the European Parliament Got Access to Sensitive Documents in the Area of Security and Defence.
• 2011/23 Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm: The European Union's Foreign Policy. The Perceptions of the Turkish Parliamentarians.
• 2011/24 Dirk Peters, Wolfgang Wagner and Cosima Glahn: Parliamentary  Control of Military Missions. The Case of the EU NAVFOR Atalanta.
• 2011/25 Mattias Iser: Dimensions of a European Constitutional Patriotism.
• 2011/26 Katherine Lyons and Christine Cheyne: Social Insurance Mechanisms in the European Union.
• 2011/27 Mark Thomson: Democracy, Inclusion and the Governance of Active Social Policies in the EU. Recent Lessons from Denmark, the UK and France.
• 2011/28 Elisabeth Wisniewski: Coming to Terms with the ‘Legitimacy Crisis’ of European Foreign Politics. The European Parliament Pushing the Frontiers of Consultation.
• 2011/29 Waltraud Schelkle: Choice in European Reforms of Social Policies. The Case of Public Employment Services.
• 2011/30 Cathleen Kantner: Debating Humanitarian Military Interventions in the European Public Sphere.
• 2011/31 Michelle Everson and Christian Joerges: Reconfiguring the Politics-Law Relationship in the Integration Project through Conflicts-Law Constitutionalism.
• 2011/32 Cathrine Holst: Equal Pay and Dilemmas of Justice.
• 2011/33 Dariusz Niedźwiedzki: Regional, Ethnic, European? Complex Identity Construction of Silesians in the Context of Cultural Borderland.
• 2011/34 Federica Bicchi: The Role of Information and Knowledge in the EU Foreign Policy System? Evidence from Heads of Mission’s Reports.
• 2011/35 Ben Crum: What Do We Owe the Poles (or the Greeks)? Three Emerging Duties of Transnational Social Justice in the European Union.
• 2011/36 Sara Clavero, Yvonne Galligan, Cathrine Holst, Róza Vajda and Katarzyna Zielińska: RECON: A Feminist View.
• 2011/37 Cathleen Kantner: European Identity as Commercium and Communio in Transnational Debates on Wars and Humanitarian Military Interventions.
• 2011/38 Carlos Closa Montero: Moving Away from Unanimity. Ratification of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union.

2010

• 2010/01 Federica Bicchi and Caterina Carta: The COREU/CORTESY Network and the Circulation of Information within EU Foreign Policy.
• 2010/02 Dominika Biegoń: European Identity Constructions in Public Debates on Wars and Military Interventions.
• 2010/03 Neil Walker: Constitutionalism and Pluralism in a Global Context.
• 2010/04 Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Nora Fisher Onar: Women's Rights in Turkey as Gauge of its European Vocation. The Impact of ‘EU-niversal Values’.
• 2010/05 Christian Joerges: The Idea of a Three-Dimensional Conflicts Law as Constitutional Form.
• 2010/06 Nora Schleicher: Gender Identity in a Democratic Europe.
• 2010/07 Kjartan Koch Mikalsen: In Defence of Kant’s League of States.
• 2010/08 Kolja Möller: European Governmentality or Decentralised Network Governance? The Case of the European Employment Strategy.
• 2010/09 Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz: 2009 European Parliamentary Elections on the Web. A Mediatization Perspective.
• 2010/10 Justus Schönlau: The Committee of the Regions. The RECON Models from a Subnational Perspective.
• 2010/11 Erik Oddvar Eriksen: European Transformation: A Pragmatist Approach.
• 2010/12 Antje Wiener and Uwe Puetter: Informal Elite Dialogue and Democratic Control in EU Foreign and Security Policy.
• 2010/13 Emmanuel Sigalas, Monika Mokre, Johannes Pollak, Peter Slominski and Jozef Bátora: Democracy Models and Parties at the EU Level. Empirical Evidence from the Adoption of the 2009 European Election Manifestoes.
• 2010/14 Zdenka Mansfeldová and Petra Rakušanová Guasti: The Quality of Democracy in the Czech Republic.
• 2010/15 Rainer Forst: Two Stories about Toleration.
• 2010/16 Jean L. Cohen: Constitutionalism Beyond the State. Myth or Necessity?
• 2010/17 Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum: Bringing European Democracy back in. Or how to Read the German Constitutional Court's Lisbon Treaty Ruling.
• 2010/18 Aleksandra Maatsch: Between an Intergovernmental and a Polycentric European Union. National Parliamentary Discourses on Democracy in the EU Ratification Process.
• 2010/19 Tess Altman and Cris Shore: Social Welfare and Democracy in Europe. What Role for the Private and Voluntary Sectors?
• 2010/20 David G. Mayes and Zaidah Mustaffa: Social models in the enlarged EU.
• 2010/21 Rainer Nickel: Data Mining and ‘Renegade’ Aircrafts: The States as Agents of a Global Militant Security Governance Network — The German Example.
• 2010/22 Pieter de Wilde, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou: Contesting EU Legitimacy. The Prominence, Content and Justification of Euroscepticism during 2009 EP Election Campaigns.
• 2010/23 Sara Clavero and Yvonne Galligan: Gender Equality in the European Union. Lessons for Democracy?
• 2010/24 Raúl Letelier: Non-Contractual Liability for Breaches of EU Law. The Tension between Corrective and Distributive Justice.
• 2010/25 John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez: The Theory of Constitutional Synthesis. A Constitutional Theory for a Democratic European Union.
• 2010/26 Waltraud Schelkle, Joan Costa-i-Font and Christa van Wijnbergen: Consumer Choice, Welfare Reform and Participation in Europe. A Framework for Analysis.
• 2010/27 Cathrine Holst: Martha Nussbaum’s Outcome-Oriented Theory of Justice. Philosophical Comments.
• 2010/28 Stefan Collignon: Fiscal Policy Rules and the Sustainability of Public Debt in Europe.
• 2010/29 Maria Weimer: Policy Choice versus Science in Regulating Animal Cloning under the WTO Law.

2009

• 2009/01 Pieter de Wilde: Reasserting the Nation State. The Trajectory of Euroscepticism in the Netherlands 1992-2005.
• 2009/02 Hans-Jörg Trenz: In Search of Popular Subjectness. Identity Formation, Constitution-Making and the Democratic Consolidation of the EU.
• 2009/03 Johannes Pollak, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre, Emmanuel Sigalas and Peter Slominski: On Political Representation. Myths and Challenges.
• 2009/04 Giandomenico Majone: The 'Referendum Threat', the Rationally Ignorant Voter, and the Political Culture of the EU.
• 2009/05 Agustín José Menéndez: European Citizenship after Martínez Sala and Baumbast. Has European Law Become More Human but Less Social?
• 2009/06 Kjartan Koch Mikalsen: Regional Federalisation with a Cosmopolitan Intent.
• 2009/07 Hans-Jörg Trenz, Nadine Bernhard and Erik Jentges: Civil Society and EU Constitution-making. Towards a European Social Constituency? 
• 2009/08 Erik Oddvar Eriksen: Explicating Social Action. Arguing or Bargaining?
• 2009/09 Pieter de Wilde: Designing Politicization. How Control Mechanisms in National Parliaments Affect Parliamentary Debates in EU Policy-Formulation
• 2009/10 Hans-Jörg Trenz and Pieter de Wilde: Denouncing European Integration. Euroscepticism as Reactive Identity Formation. 
• 2009/11 Tanja Hitzel-Cassagnes and Rainer Schmalz-Bruns: Recognition and Political Theory. Paradoxes and Conceptual Challenges of the Politics of Recognition.
• 2009/12 Arndt Wonka and Berthold Rittberger: How Independent are EU Agencies?
• 2009/13 Dionysia Tamvaki: Using Eurobarometer Data on Voter Participation in the 2004 European Elections to Test the RECON Models.
• 2009/14 Maria Weimer: Applying Precaution in Community Authorisation of Genetically Modified Products.  Challenges and Suggestions for Reform.
• 2009/15 Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Yaprak Gürsoy: Is there a Europeanisation of Turkish foreign policy? An Addendum to the Literature on EU Candidates.
• 2009/16 Emmanuel Sigalas, Monika Mokre, Johannes Pollak, Jozef Bátora and Peter Slominski: Reconstituting Political Representation in the EU. The Analytical Framework and the Operationalisation of the RECON Models.
• 2009/17 Uwe Puetter and Antje Wiener: EU Foreign Policy Elites and Fundamental Norms. Implications for Governance.
• 2009/18 Marianne Riddervold: Making a Common Foreign Policy. EU Coordination in the ILO.
• 2009/19 Rachel Herp Tausendfreund: The Commission and its Principals. Delegation Theory on a Common European External Trade Policy in the WTO.

2008

• 2008/01 James Caporaso and Sidney Tarrow: Polanyi in Brussels. European Institutions and the Embedding of Markets in Society. 
• 2008/02 Christoph Haug: Public Spheres within Movements. Challenging the (Re)search for a European Public Sphere.
• 2008/03 Jens Steffek: Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance.
• 2008/04 Thomas Risse and Jana Katharina Grabowsky: European Identity Formation in the Public Sphere and in Foreign Policy.
• 2008/05 Yvonne Galligan and Sara Clavero: Researching Gender Democracy in the European Union. Challenges and Prospects.
• 2008/06 Christian Joerges and Florian Rödl: On the “Social Deficit” of the European Integration Project and its Perpetuation through the ECJ-Judgements in Viking and Laval.
• 2008/07 Hans-Jörg Trenz: In Search of the European Public Sphere. Between Normative Overstretch and Empirical Disenchantment.
• 2008/08 Ben Crum: The EU Constitutional Process. A Failure of Political Representation?
• 2008/09 Marianne Riddervold: Interests or Principles? EU Foreign Policy in the ILO.
• 2008/10 Nicole Deitelhoff: Deliberating CFSP. European Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court.
• 2008/11 Christopher Lord: Some Indicators of the Democratic Performance of the European Union and How They Might Relate to the RECON Models.
• 2008/12 Daniel Gaus: Legitimate Political Rule Without a State? An Analysis of Joseph H. H. Weiler’s Justification of the Legitimacy of the European Union Qua Non-Statehood.
• 2008/13 Pieter de Wilde: Media Coverage and National Parliaments in EU Policy-Formulation. Debates on the EU Budget in the Netherlands 1992-2005.
• 2008/14 Zdzisław Mach and Grzegorz Pożarlik: Collective Identity Formation in the Process of EU Enlargement. Defeating the Inclusive Paradigm of a European Democracy?
• 2008/15 Agustín José Menéndez: Reconstituting Democratic Taxation in Europe. The Conceptual Framework. 
• 2008/16 Yvonne Galligan and Sara Clavero: Assessing Gender Democracy in the European Union. A Methodological Framework.
• 2008/17 Yaprak Gürsoy and Meltem Müftüler-Baç: The European Union’s Enlargement Process and the Collective Identity Formation in Turkey. The Interplay of Multiple Identities.
• 2008/18 Cathrine Holst: Gender Justice in the European Union. The Normative Subtext of Methodological Choices.
• 2008/19 Cathleen Kantner, Amelie Kutter and Swantje Renfordt: The Perception of the EU as an Emerging Security Actor in Media Debates on Humanitarian and Military Interventions (1990-2006).
• 2008/20 Anne Elizabeth Stie: Decision-Making Void of Democratic Qualities? An Evaluation of the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy.

2007

• 2007/01 Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum: Europe in transformation: How to reconstitute democracy?

• 2007/02 James Bohman: Democratizing the Transnational Polity. The European Union and the Presuppositions of Democracy.

• 2007/03 Christian Joerges: Conflict of Laws as Constitutional Form. Reflections on International Trade Law and the Biotech Panel Report.

• 2007/04 John Erik Fossum: Constitutional Patriotism. Canada and the European Union.

• 2007/05 Neil Walker: Taking Constitutionalism Beyond the State.

• 2007/06 Christoph Meyer: The Constitutional Treaty Debates as Revelatory Mechanisms. Insights for Public Sphere Research and Re-Launch Attempts.

• 2007/07 Thorsten Hülle: Adversary or ‘Depoliticized’ Institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention.

• 2007/08 Dawid Friedrich: Old Wine in New Bottles? The Actual and Potential Contribution of Civil Society Organisations to Democratic Governance in Europe.

• 2007/09 Helene Sjursen: ‘Doing Good’ in the World? Reconsidering the Basis of the Research Agenda on the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy.

• 2007/10 Wolfgang Wagner: The Democratic Deficit in the EU’s Security and Defense Policy - Why Bother? 

• 2007/11 Hans-Jörg Trenz, Maximilian Conrad and Guri Rosén: The Interpretative Moment of European Journalism. The Impact of Newspaper Opinion Making in the Ratification Process.

• 2007/12 Hans-Jörg Trenz: Measuring Europeanisation of Public Communication. The Question of Standards.

• 2007/13 Agustín José Menéndez: The European Democratic Challenge.

• 2007/14 Stefan Collignon: Theoretical Models of Fiscal Policies in the Euroland. The Lisbon Strategy, Macroeconomic Stability and the Dilemma of Governance with Governments.

• 2007/15 Helene Sjursen: Enlargement in Perspective. The EU’s Quest for Identity.

• 2007/16 Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum: A Done Deal? The EU’s Legitimacy Conundrum Revisited.

• 2007/17 Swantje Renfordt: Do Europeans Speak With One Another in Time of War? Results of a Media Analysis on the 2003 Iraq War.

• 2007/18 Anne Elizabeth Stie: Assessing Democratic Legitimacy from a Deliberative Perspective. An Analytical Framework for Evaluating the EU’s Second Pillar Decision-Making System.

• 2007/19 Helene Sjursen: Integration Without Democracy? Three Conceptions of European Security Policy in Transformation.