The ‘Mixed’ Constituent Legitimacy of the European Federation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7877313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Niesen (0000-0003-4050-4265, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-192 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.12518 |
| OpenAlex | W2586656709 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 13 |
Constitutional lawyers and political scientists have described the European Union as a federation of states ( fédération , Bund ). They deny that federations generate a new union‐wide constituent authority besides the pouvoirs constituants of the member states. Habermas argues that federative constituent power lies with individuals in their dual roles as citizens of the several states and as citizens of the Union. I argue that from the perspective of democratic theory, this view is methodologically superior to other ‘dualist’ views of federative constituent power (J. Cohen), but go on to criticize it in two respects. It gives insufficient justification for the persistence of domestic pouvoirs constituants, and it reifies their defensive function
Democracy · Democratic legitimacy · Dual (grammatical number · Economics · European union · Function (biology · International trade · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Member states · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty
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Reframing civil disobedience
Debating European Union governance in times of crisis
Why Europe Does not Need a Constitution
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The Revival of Democratic Intergovernmentalism, First Principles and the Case for a Contest-Based Account of Democracy in the European Union
Federal dynamics, solidarity, and European Union crisis politics
Banishing dominance in Europe
Reframing political space. Pro-European mobilisation and the enactment of european citizenship
Transnational partisan networks and constituent power in the EU
Constituent power and constituent capacity in the making of a global constitutional treaty
The democratic underlabourer
In the vertigo of this freedom
Agency of the governed in global international relations
Die Europäische Union als Bund
Globalization and Sovereignty
The new constitution as european ‘demoi‐cracy’
Supranational constitutional politics and the method of rational reconstruction
The Case for Demoicracy in the European Union
Two treatises of government
European Constitutionalization Between Capitalism and Democracy
Solidarity
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |