CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Siou, Emmanuelle Constance |
|---|---|
| Title | Why to chose when the EU can have both: democratic and policy-making effectiveness legitimacies, participatory deliberative and representative democracies - some critical thoughts |
| Summary | This paper attempts to address the legitimacy issue of the EU, and through a combination approach linking different fields of study. Firstly the EU should not renunce to its democratic legitimacy or its policy-making functioning legitimacy because they are seen as contradictory, rather it can have both through the research of a balance between them. Secondly the EU being a supranational level of policy-making it is necessary to examine such balance where the legitimacy deficit take place: in the policy-making process. Such process is defined concurrently in both ways by the interest intermediation process and the parties-based system both present at the EU-level. Accordinlgy examining these two types of policy-making at the EU-level through their imbrication, could address pivotal debates tearing apart expertise and politics, participatory/deliberative and representative democracy. These two types of policy-making mainly studied separately in the literature, the analysis proposed here seeks at fulfilling such gap. In the attempt of solving the legitimacy of the EU, this study will propose a normative model enabling to assess the balance between the democratic legitimacy and the policy-making functioning effectiveness the EU is reaching. Such assessment will me made by applying the model on the interest intermediation process and the parties-based system of the EU. Thus this study aim at showing firstly that both types of legitimacies and of policy-making are combinable, and secondly that this is precisely this combination that enables to solve the legitimacy deficit of the EU. |
| Supervisor | Friedrich Kratochwil |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/siou_emmanuelle.pdf |
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