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Democratic constitution-making: reflections on the European experiment

Demokratische Verfassungsgebung: Reflektionen zu einem europäischen Experiment
[journal article]

Fossum, John Erik
Menéndez, Agustin José

Abstract

'Mit der Erklärung von Laeken setzte die erste umfassende Debatte über eine Verfassung für Europa ein. Eine wichtige Frage ist, ob dies bereits einem konstitutionellen Moment in einem kritisch-normativen Sinn gleichkommt. Zwar können aus dem Laeken-Prozess normative Standards destilliert werden, die... view more

'Mit der Erklärung von Laeken setzte die erste umfassende Debatte über eine Verfassung für Europa ein. Eine wichtige Frage ist, ob dies bereits einem konstitutionellen Moment in einem kritisch-normativen Sinn gleichkommt. Zwar können aus dem Laeken-Prozess normative Standards destilliert werden, die Komplexität des europäischen politischen Systems aber erfordert eine Anpassung unserer Konstitutionalisierungsmodelle, um den Anforderungen der Demokratie genüge zu tun. Der vorliegende Beitrag verweist auf die Spannung zwischen der Idee eines konstitutionellen Moments und dem Konzept der demokratischen Repräsentation und schlägt zur Lösung ein normatives Modell des deliberativen Konstitutionalismus' vor.' (Autorenreferat)... view less


'Laeken has ushered in the first continent-wide debate, on the issue of a European constitution. An important question is whether this amounts to Europe's constitutional moment in a critical normative sense. To address this we first distil out five core lessons from the Laeken experience. This serve... view more

'Laeken has ushered in the first continent-wide debate, on the issue of a European constitution. An important question is whether this amounts to Europe's constitutional moment in a critical normative sense. To address this we first distil out five core lessons from the Laeken experience. This serves to clarify which normative standards are relevant through reconstruction of those that actually informed the process. We find that the standards from normative theory are adequate, but that the complex European setting and experience throw up several thorny issues pertaining to how such a process can be organised, so as to comply with democratic norms, and whether it at all can be deemed to be representative. Our concern here is to shed light on how the tension between the idea of a constitutional moment and the notion of democratic representation can be resolved. To this end we develop a normative model of deliberative constitution-making.' (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
EU; constitution-making; democracy; representation; constitution; deliberation; normativity; constitutionalism; legitimacy

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
European Politics

Method
descriptive study; theory formation; basic research

Document language
English

Publication Year
2005

Page/Pages
p. 249-262

Journal
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 34 (2005) 3

ISSN
2313-5433

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial


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