Enlargement, association, accession – a normative account of membership in a union of states
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12046826 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Lacey (0000-0001-9290-8283, University of Oxford, University College, Oxford, UK, corresponding author), Rainer Bauböck (0000-0003-2336-7414, European University Institute) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 529-543 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Integration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0703-6337 • E-ISSN: 1477-2280 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07036337.2017.1327523 |
| OpenAlex | W2612156121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper deals with the legitimacy of the EU’s external borders and the decision-making rules for changing them. First, while the EU should not indefinitely expand, we can identify no normative grounds for precluding in advance any liberal democratic nation-states from participation in the European project. Second, for those countries having more or less thick legal ties with the EU, or who are otherwise substantially affected by European decision-making, we argue for the institutionalisation of flexible deliberative communities. For closely associated countries, we argue that the EU has special duties in opening the door to membership. Third, we address the legitimacy of the EU’s decision-making procedures for deciding on accession candidates and creating association agreements with non-member states. Here we defend the EU’s current unanimity requirement for the former and its supermajoritarian decision rules for the latter. Finally, we suggest that nationalism is the primary obstacle to the achievement of just inclusion outcomes for non-member states
Accession · Democracy · Economics · European union · Inclusion (mineral · Institutionalisation · International trade · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Member states · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resizing · Sociology · Unanimity · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Systems and Governance
Centripetal Democracy
The Rights of Others
Constituting the polity, constituting the demos
National Interests, State Power, and EU Enlargement
Conceptually Mapping the European Union
An Ever Closer Union Among the Peoples of Europe’
The Government of the Peoples
Wider and deeper? Enlargement and integration in the European Union
What do citizens want? And why does it matter? Discourses among citizens as opportunities and constraints for EU enlargement
European Union enlargement and integration capacity
EU–Turkey
Morphing the Demos into the right shape. Normative principles for enfranchising resident aliens and expatriate citizens
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |