EUROPEAN UNION IN SEARCH OF ITS “PEOPLE”: İDENTİTY AND LEGİTİMACY GENERATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FRENCH AND DUTCH “NO”- LIMITS AND PROSPECTS

Sanem BAYKAL

doi:https://doi.org/10.1501/Avraras_0000000032

Makale detayları

EUROPEAN UNION IN SEARCH OF ITS “PEOPLE”: İDENTİTY AND LEGİTİMACY GENERATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FRENCH AND DUTCH “NO”- LIMITS AND PROSPECTS

Yazarlar:

Sanem BAYKAL

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyal Bilimler

Dergi:

Ankara Review of European Studies 2005 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.121-147

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2004

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000847248

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1303-2518

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1501/Avraras_0000000032

Anahtar kelimeler:

Özet:

 

The profound shift in conceptions o f legitimacy o f the European Union informs the recent constitution-making process and the main argument o f this study. After a brief discussion o f different conceptions o f legitimacy within context o f a sui-generis polity tike the EU, the article focuses on the recent constitutionalisation process in order to highlight its demos/identity-generative potential. Attempts at an innovative approach to Treaty reform in the EU are examined in order to ascertain whether they serve the need to facilitate the emergence o f a European public sphere and a European collective political identity. The peculiarities o f the current constitutionalisation process are discussed with a view to demonstrate that the European Constitution is an endeavor aimed at the creation o f its “pouvoir constituemt The unfavorable referenda results in two o f the leading, original and traditionally pro-EU members o f the Union, France and the Netherlands, demonstrated the limits o f the polity and political identity building potential o f written texts, albeit constitutions. It is asserted that the results suggest restraint but there is no ground for despair for the future prospects or viability o f the European polity and transnational democratic governance.

 

The profound shift in conceptions o f legitimacy o f the European Union informs the recent constitution-making process and the main argument o f this study. After a brief discussion o f different conceptions o f legitimacy within context o f a sui-generis polity tike the EU, the article focuses on the recent constitutionalisation process in order to highlight its demos/identity-generative potential. Attempts at an innovative approach to Treaty reform in the EU are examined in order to ascertain whether they serve the need to facilitate the emergence o f a European public sphere and a European collective political identity. The peculiarities o f the current constitutionalisation process are discussed with a view to demonstrate that the European Constitution is an endeavor aimed at the creation o f its “pouvoir constituemt The unfavorable referenda results in two o f the leading, original and traditionally pro-EU members o f the Union, France and the Netherlands, demonstrated the limits o f the polity and political identity building potential o f written texts, albeit constitutions. It is asserted that the results suggest restraint but there is no ground for despair for the future prospects or viability o f the European polity and transnational democratic governance.

Makale detayları

EUROPEAN UNION IN SEARCH OF ITS “PEOPLE”: İDENTİTY AND LEGİTİMACY GENERATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FRENCH AND DUTCH “NO”- LIMITS AND PROSPECTS

Yazarlar: Sanem BAYKAL

Yayıncı: Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyal Bilimler

Dergi: Ankara Review of European Studies 2005 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.121-147

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2004

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000847248

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1303-2518

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1501/Avraras_0000000032

EUROPEAN

LEGİTİMACY

PROCESS

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Sanem BAYKAL

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyal Bilimler

Dergi:

Ankara Review of European Studies 2005 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.121-147

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2004

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000847248

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1303-2518

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1501/Avraras_0000000032