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The Effects of European Integration on National Forms of Governance: Reconstructing Practices and Reconceptualizing Democracy

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Participatory Governance

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When Joschka Fischer on May 12, 2000 made a speech calling for a “European federation”, with a constituent treaty, a second chamber for a reinvigorated Parliament, and possibly an elected president, to be pioneered by a core group of interested EU member-states, he did something unprecedented: he opened up a Europe-wide public debate about the future of governing (and not just governance) in Europe. In the past, such a public statement would more likely have remained part of confidential, intergovernmental deliberations among member-states rather than becoming an opening gambit addressed to the European public as well as to member-states. This suggests that Europe itself may be changing, as growing sensitivity to the problems of the “democratic deficit” at the EU level leads to attempts not just to democratize the institutions through the creation of a European government but also to democratize the process of finding solutions through Europe-level public deliberation.

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Schmidt, V.A. (2002). The Effects of European Integration on National Forms of Governance: Reconstructing Practices and Reconceptualizing Democracy. In: Grote, J.R., Gbikpi, B. (eds) Participatory Governance. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11003-3_7

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