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EU Law - Democratic Deficit Flashcards

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Article 225 TFEU

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P can request Com submit legislative proposal

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How did the Lisbon Treaty try to recognise EU level prerogatives to NPs?

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Articles 6 - 7 Protocol on the Application of the Principles of Subsidiarity and Proportionality

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Who argued EU policy is skewed towards interests of owners of capital?

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Streeck and Schmitter

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What academics argue it is wrong to compare EU to nation states?

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Menon and Wetherill

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Who argued EU only performs Pareto-efficient functions rather than redistributive functions?

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Majone

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What is the EU citizens’ initiative?

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If more than 1 mil citizens from 7+ Members ask Com to propose a law, Com must consider

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Three broad examples of institutional reforms

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Increase EU P powers, OLP and recognise EU level prerogatives to NPs

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Kobler

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Lower court found higher court misapplied law, leading to SL

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What is ‘thick-thin’ democracy?

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Vertical AND horizontal dialogue, between reps and public, reps and reps, and public and public

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What shows executive dominance in EU is a choice by Members?

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Danish EU Affairs Committee decide with Minister beforehand how far he can go - other countries could do this too

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Who argued any electorally unaccountable institutions in EU are both that way by DESIGN and not unique to EU?

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Moravscik

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In what way is there executive dominance in EU?

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Governance skewed towards Com, CoM and EU Council

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Why did Moravscik believe there is no disillusionment of voters?

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Most salient issues are still MS competencies, so it’s just that ‘EU politics… is boring’

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What academic found lower courts were most keen on applying EU law?

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Alter

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What Articles try to clarify CoM and EU P prerogatives and powers in terms of comitology system?

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Articles 290 - 291 TFEU

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What Treaty tried to adjust Plaumann decision?

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Lisbon

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What is the comitology system?

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CoM (and now EP) oversee executive activities of Com, including legislative implementation

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Why does Moravscik believe the social democratic critique of EU is a myth?

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NP and G control CoM, meaning only political extremes are excluded as parties come to a centrist agreement - policies match with EU ‘median’ voter

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How is EU law arguably largely implemented?

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By technocratic bodies under the Comitology system

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What decision showed General Court re-adopting Plaumann test?

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Inuit Tapiriit

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Inuit Tapiriit

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General Court readopted Plaumann

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Tries to assist private litigants seeking JR of non-implementing EU regulatory acts

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Article 263(4) TFEU

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Why is it possible Members WANT EU to be unresponsive to democratic pressures

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To maintain their power over EU as democratically legit ones

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What is the social democratic critique of EU?

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EU produces neoliberal policies, which do not match with voter preferences

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Follesdal and Hix

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EU is unresponsive to democratic pressures

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Menon and Wetherill on redressing the democratic deficit

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Shouldn’t become nation-state democracy because would imperil Member democracy

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Why did Moravscik believe forcing public participation in EU could be damaging?

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Seen as ‘democratising’ Europe, creating Euroskeptical demagogy

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Who called EU elections ‘second order’?

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Reif and Schmitt

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Three procedural reforms at EU level

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Law making procedure, comitology system and judicial accountability

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Article 17(7) TEU

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EU council should propose President of Com by QMV, taking into account elections to EU P

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Bellamy and Castiglione suggestion

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strengthen EU through NP, with ‘thick-thin’ form of representative democracy, based on civility

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What do Bellamy and Castiglione think would be the outcome of their reform ideas?

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Creation of a demos through which citizens could promote their failures

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What does Article 17(8) TEU allow?

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Motions of censure - EU P can fire Com by 2/3 majority

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Article 263(4) TFEU

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Tries to assist private litigants seeking JR of non-implementing EU regulatory acts

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How many parts are there to the democratic deficit?

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7

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Who suggests greater professionalism, rules to protect minorities and better scrutiny by private actors?

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Majone

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How do EU P benefit from QMV expansion?

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If CoM legislation requires QMV, P can make targeted amendments to get a majority (but not a unanimity)

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What is the Passarel procedure?

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Council, by unanimity, can move an area from EU P only being consulted to EU P having a veto

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Who found EU legitimacy rests primarily on Members, to which EU ministers are accountable?

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Moravscik

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EU social Partners can adopt Framework Agreements in social sphere, then incorporated in EU Directives

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Article 155 TFEU

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EU citizens’ initiative

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Article 11(4) TEU

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Academics on unresponsive to democratic pressures

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Follesdal and Hix

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Article 17(8) TEU

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Com as a body is responsible to the EU P

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Positive of Article 11(4) TEU

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Gives independent political identity to citizens

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In what Article of what Treaty is the ordinary legislative procedure?

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Article 294 TFEU

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What Treaty removed the ability of CoM to vote in secret?

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lisbon

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What academics suggest EU level contestation for EU political leadership (including directly elected Com President) and argument over direction of policy agenda?

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Follesdal and Hix

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Why is it said EU is unresponsive to democratic pressures?

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No ONE EU election

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What case showed change in status of EU P by being directly elected?

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ISO Glucose Case

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Two Articles trying to increase judicial accountability

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Article 263(4) TFEU and Article 6(2) TEU

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Article 6(2) TEU

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Accede to ECHR, trying to increase judicial accountability

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Article 155 TFEU

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EU social Partners can adopt Framework Agreements in social sphere, then incorporated in EU Directives

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Who argues EU is just having a ‘credibility crisis’?

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Who argued EU is a ‘multi-governance’ system, so preferences are known over time?

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Since what Treaty has the codecision procedure been the ordinary legislative procedure?

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Maastricht

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What is civicity?

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Citizens regarding themselves as people with both common AND distinct interests

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What does Majone think the EU would do if politicised?

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Move away from Pareto-efficiency towards compensating losers rather than just correcting market failures

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Why did Moravscik believe EU P being weak is a myth?

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Increase in powers over time (e.g. veto power and codecision procedure)

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Why did Moravscik believe EU not a technocracy?

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Lacks capacity of modern state, and stringent checks on ‘every day’ legislation

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What kind of democracy do Bellamy and Castiglione think exists at EU level?

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Thick, based on solidarity

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Who argues Member democracy would be imperilled if we were to follow Follesdal and Hix’s suggestions, and why?

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Menon and Wetherill, because EU would then have own independent democratic mandate, superseding members

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What is an argument against distance at EU level being part of democratic deficit?

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Allows Members to pool sovereignty to make more of an impact

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Name at least four parts of democratic deficit

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Unresponsiveness to democratic pressures, executive/technocratic dominance, distance, lack of transparency and complex, weakening of judiciary and imbalance between Capital and Labour

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What Treaty introduced Article 17(7) TEU on President of Com?

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Example of EU Social Partner adopting Framework Agreement, then incorporated in EU Directive

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Directive 2010/18 on parental leave

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Why is domestic judicial control perhaps strengthened?

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Lower courts have more power

67
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Plaumann decision

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Narrow test for individuals to challenge EU law - closed category affected more than anyone else

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What is the main argument against democratic deficit of EU?

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The issues are not specific to the EU

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What kind of democracy do Bellamy and Castiglione think exists at national level?

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Thin, based on singularity

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What has the interpretation of Article 17(7) TEU been?

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That biggest party in EU P will nominate President of Com

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Why did Moravscik believe executive dominance a myth?

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National Gs are directly accountable (CoM) and media scrutinise

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How is substantive reform trying to be achieved?

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Reinforce EU Treaty by references to democratic and social values

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Who argued EU is responsive to democratic pressures?

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Who highlighted party politics has becomes increasingly professionalised?

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Peter Mair

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Why did Moravscik believe negative referendums do not show dislike of EU?

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More of a sign of ignorance/small politics in nation-state

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Who argued the absence of a European ‘demos’ prevents creation of a European ‘democracy’?

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Two changes in law making procedures

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ordinary legislative procedure and ending Com agenda setting

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When was there an issue with EU P needing to accept or reject Com as a block?

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Rocco Buttiglione, chosen by Berlusconi

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When were the EU P directly elected for the first time?

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6 myths Moravscik rebuts post-Follesdal and Hix

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EU is a superstate, a technocracy, electorally unaccountable, disliked in negative referendums, lacks public participation and disillusions voters

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Marks on redressing the democratic deficit

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There is no supranational state (e.g. agree with Moravscik) bc multi-level governance w/ preference over time

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Follesdal and Hix suggestions

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EU level contestation for EU political leadership (including directly elected Com President) and argument over direction of policy agenda

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What case shows a lower court can seek compatibility of a higher court decision??

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Simmenthal

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Article 241 TFEU

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Council can request Com submit legislative proposal

85
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Through what Article did Lisbon try to adjust Plaumann?

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Article 263(4) TFEU

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What politician highlighted how political power is dispersed throughout the EU?

87
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What is QMV?

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Need 55% of State to agree, representing 65% of the population

88
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ISO Glucose Case

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Law annulled as Council did not wait for P opinion

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What meant General Court interpreted Article 263(4) TFEU to be the same as Plaumann?

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Ambiguous language

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Why did Moravscik believe EU not a superstate

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Only deals with 10 - 20% of national decision-making

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What academics suggest strengthening EU through NP, with ‘thick-thin’ form of representative democracy, based on civility?

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Bellamy and Castiglione

92
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What gave EU P a role in comitology system?

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1999 and 2006 Revisions

93
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What are other legislative procedures, e.g. consultation, now?

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‘Special’ procedures

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Since what Treaty have the EU P had to approve Com and Com president?

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Who showed how Eurlex found Com issues 69% of all secondary legislation in force today?

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Blom-Hansen

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How have there been increased EU P powers?

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Directly elected (not in Treaty of Rome); QMV expansion to have more power over CoM; co-decision procedure with veto

97
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Three institutional reforms at EU level

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Increasing EU P powers, ordinary legislative procedure and recognising EU level prerogatives to NP

98
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How do Follesdal and Hix critique Majone?

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Not clear regulatory policies DON’T produce winners/losers, and many policies ARE redistributive, so need democratic contestation

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Who argued EU is an arena for neoliberal policy drift from (national) voters?

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Follesdal and Hix

100
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What does an ‘orange card’ mean?

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Council or EU P can vote down given measure for breaching subsidiarity

101
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What Treaty introduced Articles 290 and 291 TFEU?

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When was the comitology system created and by what?

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1987, 1st Comitology Decision 85/272

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How do Follesdal and Hix critique Moravscik?

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Should be mechanism to ENSURE voter preference matches EU policy, and need debate to ensure citizens make fully-informed decisions

104
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Why is it debatable if references to various values actually help EU democracy?

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Unelected judges force particular policy outcomes, and EU citizens already have a variety of documents protecting their rights

105
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What is the ordinary legislative procedure under Article 294 TFEU matched with?

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Article 238 TFEU QMV

106
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Article 12 TEU

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Outlines prerogatives and roles of NPs

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Why did Moravscik believe eu IS NOT electorally unaccountable?

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EU P directly elected, major constitutional change dependent on unanimity AND domestic ratification

108
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Who suggests there is a lack of cooperation through multiple demoi at EU level?

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Bellamy and Castiglione

109
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What measure is an example of use of orange card procedure?

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Monti II Draft Regulation

110
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How is there institutional distance between national citizens and EU?

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Electoral control over Council and Com too remote

111
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Who argued the DD was a myth?

112
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Who said that a state without means of change is a state without means of preserving itself?

113
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How is there psychological distance between national citizens and EU?

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Citizens find EU hard to identify with as so unlike national democratic institutions

114
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Factortame

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Court to disapply national law despite PS

115
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Why is domestic judicial control over EU weakned?

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Because of the principle of supremacy, and courts must obey CJEU rulings

116
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What politician described democracy as the worst system?

117
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If measure is covered by codecision, what meeting is there prior to the measure being considered?

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Between CoM, Com and Chair of relevant EU P committee to decide how to change proposed law

118
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Article 11(4) TEU

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EU citizens’ initiative

119
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Three broad examples of procedural reforms

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Law-making procedures, cosmetology and judicial accountability

120
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Articles 6 - 7 Protocol on the Application of the Principles of Subsidiarity and Proportionality

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Yellow-card and orange-card system - yellow card 1/3 of NPs, orange if majority

121
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What does the codecision procedure mean?

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EU P is now a xo-legislator, with a veto power against the Council

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