09 / 02 / 2009
EU Decision-making Void of Democratic Qualities? RECON.
Working Paper 2008/20. Anne Elizabeth Stie. The EU's foreign and security policy is often criticised for being undemocratic. This paper addresses this contention from the perspective of deliberative democracy. It evaluates the procedural qualities of the second pillar decision-making processes as it is not only the quality of the outcomes that determine the democratic legitimacy of policy-making, but also the way decisions have come about.
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