1997
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0386.00035
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Law's Polyarchy: A Comment on Cohen and Sabel

Abstract: This comment links Cohen/Sabels' idea of a 'directly-deliberative polyarchy' to the contemporary debate on the deficit in democratic legitimation of the European Union. Within this constitutional-legal debate the conventional options are either to defend a vision of the EU which separates global economic law from national sovereignty, and thus relies on the legitimising powers of free markets, or to regard the legitimation problem (at least under present conditions) as beyond solution: that is to say that any … Show more

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“…This theory, being a normative theory of democracy, has not received a great deal of attention by scholars of EU governance. Application to the EU has focused on whether the theory can provide a model of democracy beyond the boundaries of the nation-state that could serve as an ideal for the European Union (Gerstenberg 1997;Gerstenberg andSabel 2000, Schmalz-Bruns 1999). In the following, we want to show how this theory makes it possible to make sense of the new forms of decisionmaking in the European Union.…”
Section: Theorising the New Modes Of European Union Governancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This theory, being a normative theory of democracy, has not received a great deal of attention by scholars of EU governance. Application to the EU has focused on whether the theory can provide a model of democracy beyond the boundaries of the nation-state that could serve as an ideal for the European Union (Gerstenberg 1997;Gerstenberg andSabel 2000, Schmalz-Bruns 1999). In the following, we want to show how this theory makes it possible to make sense of the new forms of decisionmaking in the European Union.…”
Section: Theorising the New Modes Of European Union Governancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…These virtues might, to some degree, be realized in emergent schemes, but the critical dimension of the framework is purchased through its capacity to identify breakdowns in experimentalist practices. This perspective thus treats the experimentalist dimension of, for instance, the EU as a latent potential that is only imperfectly realized, or achieved only to certain degrees, in its governance structures (Gerstenberg, 1997, 355–8). The optimal realization of experimentalist values in practice can, furthermore, be seen as an open question, which should be addressed through analysis of apparent successes and failures of emerging schemes (De Búrca 2010, 238).…”
Section: The Theory Of Experimentalist Governancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Its application to the EU has so far focused on whether the theory can provide a model of democracy beyond the boundaries of the nation-state (Gerstenberg, 1997;Gerstenberg and Sabel, 2000;Schmalz-Bruns, 1999). We would like to show how this theory makes it possible to make sense of the new forms of decision-making in the European Union.…”
Section: Theorizing the New Modes Of European Union Governancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…A promising perspective for an innovative conceptualization of new governance is offered by the theory of 'democratic experimentalism' (Cohen and Sabel, 1997;Dorf and Sabel, 1998). Its application to the EU has so far focused on whether the theory can provide a model of democracy beyond the boundaries of the nation-state (Gerstenberg, 1997;Gerstenberg and Sabel, 2000;Schmalz-Bruns, 1999). We would like to show how this theory makes it possible to make sense of the new forms of decision-making in the European Union.…”
Section: Theorizing the New Modes Of European Union Governancementioning
confidence: 99%