Johannes Pollak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4382163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes Pollak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollak |
| SIGNATURE | POLLAK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6471-2272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Østerrikes EU-medlemskap: Institusjonelle og politiske implikasjoner
Østerrikes inntreden i Den europeiske union i 1995 har medført betydelige endringer i landets politiske, økonomiske, sosiale og kulturelle forhold. For å vurdere implikasjonene av EU-medlemskapet, gir denne artikkelen først en kort oversikt over EUs styresett for å undersøke Østerrikes handlingsrom til å forfølge sine interesser. Dette etterfølges av en diskusjon om hvordan Østerrikes medlemskap har påvirket utvalgte politikkområder, inkludert øk…
Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Democratic Representation
Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Democratic Representation
Two futures: EU-Russia relations in the context of Ukraine
The enduring crisis in Ukraine presents the European Union (EU) with a conundrum. Should it strengthen its economic and energy ties despite Russia’s growing assertiveness in the hope to solidify its medium term energy security and reel in Russian foreign policy? Or should it rather continue to tighten the screws on the Putin regime, in the hope that doing so will concurrently compel the Russian Federation to moderate its behaviour? This paper arg…
The Silence of the Shepherds: How the Austrian Parliament Informs its Citizens on European Issues
Since the legislative and control functions of national parliaments have largely fallen prey to party politics in domestic as well as in European Union (EU) politics, the information function could be a last resort for the justification, explanation and communication of executive politics. National parliaments could provide the missing link between a national electorate and ever more supranationally acting executives. But the communication and in…
The Pitfalls of Representation as Claims-Making in the European Union 1
Standard accounts assume that representatives are authorised and held accountable through elections in territorially defined constituencies. In contrast, claims-making approaches hold that representation does not always depend on an electoral connection. This paper argues that the claims-making approach addresses some of the difficulties in the standard account, but remains itself theoretically underspecified. This becomes especially clear when a…
Unequal but democratic? Equality according to Karlsruhe
In its Lisbon ruling, the German Constitutional Court claims that the ‘formation of a government with the powers of a state’ from within the European Parliament would require its seats to be apportioned in a strict relationship to the share of each member state in the population of the Union. In reaching this conclusion, the Court distinguishes between the equal representation of whole democratic peoples and the equal representation of individual…
Representation and Accountability: Communicating Tubes
Although representation and accountability require one another in modern democracy, there are many possible tensions between them. Democratic theories tend to combine the two but in ways that are not always obvious, and, depending on the institutional properties of a political system, varied ways of combining representation with accountability can amount to significant differences in the practice and quality of democracy. The authors review those…
The EU's many representative modes: Colliding? Cohering
At first glance the European Union's (EU's) compound form of representation allows a wide-ranging spectrum of actors to claim to be representative, and allows different channels to feed their demands and interests into the political system. While this may be understood as a redeeming feature of supranational politics, this article sounds a note of caution. The historically developed system of representation comprising different principles and pra…
Experimentalist but not Accountable Governance? The Role of Frontex in Managing the EU's External Borders
In 2005 the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders (Frontex) was founded. Contrary to the widely used principal–agent approaches, it is more promising to analyse Frontex through the lens of experimentalist governance. This paper has two lines of argument. First, it argues that Frontex may only succeed if Frontex has a sufficient degree of organisational independence and enjoys appropriate and steady …
European administration: Centralisation and fragmentation as means of polity-building
The creation of a unified administrative space is part and parcel of all polity-building processes. We hold that the accelerating agencification in the European Union has created a complex administrative space characterised by simultaneous centralisation and fragmentation. Due to the fact that the finalité of integration is open-ended, this complexity is not just a passing occurrence but a defining moment of the EU. Administrative cooperation wit…
Contested Meanings of Representation
The Austrian Presidency: Pragmatic Management
The representative quality of EU treaty reform: A comparison between the IGC and the convention
This article assesses whether the Convention on the Future of Europe is more representative than the traditional way of Treaty reform by IGCs. The concept of representation is analysed and five dimensions are specified. By applying these dimensions both to IGCs and the Convention the article concludes that the setting‐up of the Convention has led to a more balanced representation based not only on a broader presence of representatives but also on…
Influencing EU Politics? The Case of the Austrian Parliament
The Austrian Parliament has at its disposal the strongest participation rights enabling it to influence European Union (EU) affairs. But does this guarantee a more powerful parliament in real terms? It turns out that the original intention of providing the Austrian Parliament with a strong instrument to contribute to the EU decision‐making process has been shattered by party‐dominated parliamentary life. After a promising start, the use of this d…
Experimentalist but not Accountable Governance? The Role of Frontex in Managing the EU's External Borders
In 2005 the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders (Frontex) was founded. Contrary to the widely used principal–agent approaches, it is more promising to analyse Frontex through the lens of experimentalist governance. This paper has two lines of argument. First, it argues that Frontex may only succeed if Frontex has a sufficient degree of organisational independence and enjoys appropriate and steady …
The EU's many representative modes: Colliding? Cohering
At first glance the European Union's (EU's) compound form of representation allows a wide-ranging spectrum of actors to claim to be representative, and allows different channels to feed their demands and interests into the political system. While this may be understood as a redeeming feature of supranational politics, this article sounds a note of caution. The historically developed system of representation comprising different principles and pra…
Influencing EU Politics? The Case of the Austrian Parliament
The Austrian Parliament has at its disposal the strongest participation rights enabling it to influence European Union (EU) affairs. But does this guarantee a more powerful parliament in real terms? It turns out that the original intention of providing the Austrian Parliament with a strong instrument to contribute to the EU decision‐making process has been shattered by party‐dominated parliamentary life. After a promising start, the use of this d…
Representation and Accountability: Communicating Tubes
Although representation and accountability require one another in modern democracy, there are many possible tensions between them. Democratic theories tend to combine the two but in ways that are not always obvious, and, depending on the institutional properties of a political system, varied ways of combining representation with accountability can amount to significant differences in the practice and quality of democracy. The authors review those…
European administration: Centralisation and fragmentation as means of polity-building
The creation of a unified administrative space is part and parcel of all polity-building processes. We hold that the accelerating agencification in the European Union has created a complex administrative space characterised by simultaneous centralisation and fragmentation. Due to the fact that the finalité of integration is open-ended, this complexity is not just a passing occurrence but a defining moment of the EU. Administrative cooperation wit…
The Pitfalls of Representation as Claims-Making in the European Union 1
Standard accounts assume that representatives are authorised and held accountable through elections in territorially defined constituencies. In contrast, claims-making approaches hold that representation does not always depend on an electoral connection. This paper argues that the claims-making approach addresses some of the difficulties in the standard account, but remains itself theoretically underspecified. This becomes especially clear when a…
Contested Meanings of Representation
Unequal but democratic? Equality according to Karlsruhe
In its Lisbon ruling, the German Constitutional Court claims that the ‘formation of a government with the powers of a state’ from within the European Parliament would require its seats to be apportioned in a strict relationship to the share of each member state in the population of the Union. In reaching this conclusion, the Court distinguishes between the equal representation of whole democratic peoples and the equal representation of individual…
The Silence of the Shepherds: How the Austrian Parliament Informs its Citizens on European Issues
Since the legislative and control functions of national parliaments have largely fallen prey to party politics in domestic as well as in European Union (EU) politics, the information function could be a last resort for the justification, explanation and communication of executive politics. National parliaments could provide the missing link between a national electorate and ever more supranationally acting executives. But the communication and in…
The Austrian Presidency: Pragmatic Management
The representative quality of EU treaty reform: A comparison between the IGC and the convention
This article assesses whether the Convention on the Future of Europe is more representative than the traditional way of Treaty reform by IGCs. The concept of representation is analysed and five dimensions are specified. By applying these dimensions both to IGCs and the Convention the article concludes that the setting‐up of the Convention has led to a more balanced representation based not only on a broader presence of representatives but also on…
Two futures: EU-Russia relations in the context of Ukraine
The enduring crisis in Ukraine presents the European Union (EU) with a conundrum. Should it strengthen its economic and energy ties despite Russia’s growing assertiveness in the hope to solidify its medium term energy security and reel in Russian foreign policy? Or should it rather continue to tighten the screws on the Putin regime, in the hope that doing so will concurrently compel the Russian Federation to moderate its behaviour? This paper arg…
Influencing EU Politics? The Case of the Austrian Parliament
The Austrian Parliament has at its disposal the strongest participation rights enabling it to influence European Union (EU) affairs. But does this guarantee a more powerful parliament in real terms? It turns out that the original intention of providing the Austrian Parliament with a strong instrument to contribute to the EU decision‐making process has been shattered by party‐dominated parliamentary life. After a promising start, the use of this d…
The representative quality of EU treaty reform: A comparison between the IGC and the convention
This article assesses whether the Convention on the Future of Europe is more representative than the traditional way of Treaty reform by IGCs. The concept of representation is analysed and five dimensions are specified. By applying these dimensions both to IGCs and the Convention the article concludes that the setting‐up of the Convention has led to a more balanced representation based not only on a broader presence of representatives but also on…
Contested Meanings of Representation
The Austrian Presidency: Pragmatic Management
European administration: Centralisation and fragmentation as means of polity-building
The creation of a unified administrative space is part and parcel of all polity-building processes. We hold that the accelerating agencification in the European Union has created a complex administrative space characterised by simultaneous centralisation and fragmentation. Due to the fact that the finalité of integration is open-ended, this complexity is not just a passing occurrence but a defining moment of the EU. Administrative cooperation wit…
Experimentalist but not Accountable Governance? The Role of Frontex in Managing the EU's External Borders
In 2005 the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders (Frontex) was founded. Contrary to the widely used principal–agent approaches, it is more promising to analyse Frontex through the lens of experimentalist governance. This paper has two lines of argument. First, it argues that Frontex may only succeed if Frontex has a sufficient degree of organisational independence and enjoys appropriate and steady …
Representation and Accountability: Communicating Tubes
Although representation and accountability require one another in modern democracy, there are many possible tensions between them. Democratic theories tend to combine the two but in ways that are not always obvious, and, depending on the institutional properties of a political system, varied ways of combining representation with accountability can amount to significant differences in the practice and quality of democracy. The authors review those…
The EU's many representative modes: Colliding? Cohering
At first glance the European Union's (EU's) compound form of representation allows a wide-ranging spectrum of actors to claim to be representative, and allows different channels to feed their demands and interests into the political system. While this may be understood as a redeeming feature of supranational politics, this article sounds a note of caution. The historically developed system of representation comprising different principles and pra…
The Pitfalls of Representation as Claims-Making in the European Union 1
Standard accounts assume that representatives are authorised and held accountable through elections in territorially defined constituencies. In contrast, claims-making approaches hold that representation does not always depend on an electoral connection. This paper argues that the claims-making approach addresses some of the difficulties in the standard account, but remains itself theoretically underspecified. This becomes especially clear when a…
Unequal but democratic? Equality according to Karlsruhe
In its Lisbon ruling, the German Constitutional Court claims that the ‘formation of a government with the powers of a state’ from within the European Parliament would require its seats to be apportioned in a strict relationship to the share of each member state in the population of the Union. In reaching this conclusion, the Court distinguishes between the equal representation of whole democratic peoples and the equal representation of individual…
Two futures: EU-Russia relations in the context of Ukraine
The enduring crisis in Ukraine presents the European Union (EU) with a conundrum. Should it strengthen its economic and energy ties despite Russia’s growing assertiveness in the hope to solidify its medium term energy security and reel in Russian foreign policy? Or should it rather continue to tighten the screws on the Putin regime, in the hope that doing so will concurrently compel the Russian Federation to moderate its behaviour? This paper arg…
The Silence of the Shepherds: How the Austrian Parliament Informs its Citizens on European Issues
Since the legislative and control functions of national parliaments have largely fallen prey to party politics in domestic as well as in European Union (EU) politics, the information function could be a last resort for the justification, explanation and communication of executive politics. National parliaments could provide the missing link between a national electorate and ever more supranationally acting executives. But the communication and in…
Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Democratic Representation
Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Democratic Representation
Østerrikes EU-medlemskap: Institusjonelle og politiske implikasjoner
Østerrikes inntreden i Den europeiske union i 1995 har medført betydelige endringer i landets politiske, økonomiske, sosiale og kulturelle forhold. For å vurdere implikasjonene av EU-medlemskapet, gir denne artikkelen først en kort oversikt over EUs styresett for å undersøke Østerrikes handlingsrom til å forfølge sine interesser. Dette etterfølges av en diskusjon om hvordan Østerrikes medlemskap har påvirket utvalgte politikkområder, inkludert øk…
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