This paper sets out to explore the impact of multi-level decision-making on accountability machinery through a case study of asset-freezing decisions taken in response to UN resolutions ordering ‘smart sanctions’ against persons and bodies suspected of involvement in … [Read more...]
Full Parliamentarisation of the EU without Changing the Treaties Why We Should Aim for It and How Easily It Can be Achieved
The two main reasons why democracy won the contest for the leading legitimacy claim in the modern world are its capacity to generate loyalty and its self-correction potential. In order to use these virtues, the European Commission (conceptualised as the government of the EU) … [Read more...]
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The Present and the Future of EU Citizenship: A Bird’s Eye View of the Legal Debate
This article scrutinizes the last ten years of the academic debate on EU citizenship law taking nine fundamental disagreements among scholars as staring points. It explores EU citizenship’s relationship with three groups of issues of fundamental importance, including the … [Read more...]
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Beyond the Exceptionalism of Constitutional Conflicts: The Ordinary Functions of the Identity Clause
Article 4(2) of the Treaty on the European Union, in its novel formulation provided by the Treaty of Lisbon, requires the Union to “respect Member States’ national identities, inherent in their fundamental structures, political and constitutional, including regional … [Read more...]
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Towards a Democratic Yardstick? Evaluations of International Institutions in Academic Textbooks, 1970-2010
This paper has two aims. First, we examine how relevant democracy is as a normative standard in academic textbook evaluations of international institutions and how the relevance of democracy-based evaluations has changed over time. Second, we are interested in what … [Read more...]
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