Abstract (may include machine translation)
Without radically upsetting the institutional and political balance of the Union, the Commission's White Paper on Governance, published 25 July 2001, proposes a new basis for the EU's institutional legitimacy. However, this conceptual re-foundation gives rise to new and fundamental questions. To speak of governance within democracy is indeed unthinkable unless 'governance' is redefined as a form of government where the legitimacy of public action (as well as its efficiency) is made possible by a 'proceduralisation' of law. The failure to promote legitimacy with concepts borrowed from the vocabulary of the nation-state is nevertheless puzzling: should the 'participatory democracy' be considered a substitute for representative democracy? Even if this is not the case, it is uncertain whether 'participatory democracy' sufficiently embodies the democratic ideal, at least at the European Union level.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 131-150 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | International Journal of Phytoremediation |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2003 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Democracy
- European union
- Globalisation
- Governance
- Legitimacy