Reasons for constitutionalization: non-discrimination, minority rights and social rights in the Convention on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Schwellnus, Guido

doi:10.1080/13501760600999565

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“…Regular executive and legislative elections continue to keep politicians and politics in check, the (unelected) representatives in the judiciary continue to balance legislators and presidents keen to roll back democracy, but sufficient numbers of the electorate are yet to show enthusiasm for a challenge to the experts making decisions for the people (Barnes and Simon 1998;Orenstein 2009). The EU's Eastern enlargement has been widely perceived not only to promise a departure from non-democratic political regimes for good; in co-opting the view that "Europeanisation equals democratisation", it increased the stakes for both the elites and the people in the accession states to cooperate in the short term to benefit from governance closer to "the people" in the long run (Agarin and Yilmaz 2016;Noutcheva 2016;Keil 2013;Schwellnus 2006). As such, the EU accession only facilitated the consolidation of "the people" around the putatively homogeneous "nation".…”

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The (not so) surprising longevity of identity politics: contemporary challenges of the state-society compact in Central Eastern Europe

Agarin

2020

East European Politics

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The article argues that across the East European region ongoing uncertainty about the nature of the state-society compact is central to continuous relevance of "national" in politics. This compact defines who owns the state and who is to benefits from its current form. Since postcommunist nation-state-building was as much about the exclusion of some residents from the political community as it was about limiting states' reliance on thick political ideologies, "national identity" remains at the heart of postcommunist politics. This foundational exclusion also offers considerable insights for comparison of the causes, effects and challenges of identity politics in wider Europe.

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