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The Making of a European Constitution Dynamics and Limits of the Convention Experience

:	Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Wolfgang Wessels
:	Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Wolfgang Wessels
:	The Making of a European Constitution Dynamics and Limits of the Convention Experience
:	VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (GWV)
:	9783531900957
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:	Vergleichende und internationale Politikwissenschaft
:	English

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The aim of this publication is an analysis of the process of European constitutionalisation and its entanglement with relevant national discourses. Thus, national constitutional traditions in Austria, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are evaluated with regard to the positions of the respective national representatives in the European Convention. Interviews with Members of National Parliaments and of the European Parliament as well as a content analysis of the debate on the future of Europe in print media form the empirical basis of this study.

Professor Dr. Sonja Puntscher Riekmann is professor for Political Theory and European Integration at the University of Salzburg and Director of the Institute for European Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Wessels has the Jean Monnet Chair, Research Institute for Political Science and European Affairs at the University of Cologne.

	Contents	6
	European Constitutionalism at the Crossroads	8
	1. Introduction: Writing a Book on European Constitutionalism in Times of Crisis	8
	2. Old Treaties, New Constitution?	13
	3. Values, Norms and Identities	14
	4. The Union’s Competences: Expanding Tasks towards a State- like Agenda	17
	5. The Institutional Architecture: a Restated Equilibrium on a Higher Level	20
	6. And Now? The Conundrums of Constitutionalising Power	23
	7. References	30
	Part I: The Making of a European Constitution: Processes and Methods	34
	The Constitutionalisation of the European Union – Without the Constitutional Treaty	36
	1. Introduction	36
	2. What is a Constitution?	38
	3. The European Constitution without a State	44
	4. The Constitutionalisation of European Law up to the Adoption of the Constitutional Treaty of 2004	47
	5. The Constitutional Treaty of 2004 Overcomes the Outdated Dichotomy Between Contract and Constitution	54
	6. The Constitutionalisation of the Treaty Revision Procedure	59
	7. Benefits of the Constitutionalist Reconstruction of European Law	63
	8. References	64
	Getting to a European Constitution: From Fischer to the IGC	69
	1. Introduction	69
	2. An Analytical Framework	70
	3. Phase I: Competing Frames	72
	4. Phase II: Agenda Setting	74
	5. Phase III: The Convention Phase	76
	6. Phase IV: From Convention to IGC	78
	7. Getting to a Constitution	86
	8. Conclusions	88
	9. References	89
	The Convention Method: An Institutional Device for Consensus-building	91
	1. Introduction	91
	2. A Note on Methods: Fieldwork and Data	95
	3. From ‘Listening’ to ‘Consensus’: Elements of the Convention Method	96
	4. Conclusions	113
	5. References	117
	Deliberation and Compromise in the Shadow of Bargaining	121
	1. The EU’s Constitutional Convention and European System development	121
	2. Issue Tracking – European Demos as a Prerequisite or an Outcome of European Integration?	123
	3. The Need for Sustainable Debate and the Convention as its Medium	125
	4. Conclusions: System Change beyond the Convention	147
	5. The Convention was a Deliberative Process – and a Deliberative Sequence	150
	6. References	153
	The Dynamics of the Two-Level Process of Constitution Building	157
	1. Analyzing European Constitution Building	157
	2. Two-level Games and the Constitution Building Process	159
	3. Delegation, Strategies and Collective Actors	164
	4. Studying the Process of European Constitution Building	166
	5. References	172
	Part II: The Making of a European Constitution: Influences and Perceptions	174
	The Impact of Constitutional Traditions on the EU-Reform Discourse in Austria, France, Germany and the UK	176
	1. Introduction	176
	2. The Method: A Three Dimensional Research Design	178
	3. National Conceptions of Sovereignty and the Shape of a Future European Constitution	180
	4. Executive – Legislative Relationships and the Introduction of a Bicameral System?	185
	5. National Constitutional Arrangements and the Division of Competences in the EU	192
	6. Conclusion: The Impact of National Traditions – Two Pathways	195
	7. References	196
	Political Elites and the Future of Europe: The Views of MPs and MEPs	201
	1. Introduction	201
	2. Data	202
	3. Positions of MPs and MEPs towards European integration	205
	4. Results	207
	5. Conclusion	213
	6. References	214
	Publicized Discourses on the Post-Nice Process	217
	1. Public Discourse in Context: Legitimacy and Democracy in the EU	217
	2. Public Discourse as a Legitimizing and De-legitimizing Force	220
	3. The Perceived Utility of Different Forms of Public Discourse in the EU Context	221
	4. Political System Development and Legitimacy: The Actual Role of Public Discourses	223
	5. From Public Discourse to Publicized Discourse: How the Mass Media Matter	226
	6. Theories of EU Governance: Finding a Place for News Media	227
	7. Content Analysis as a Research Method to Explore Publicized Discourses	231
	8. Preliminary Findings	234
	9. References	243
	The Ratification of the Constitution and the European Public Sphere	250
	1. Introduction	250
	2. Democratic Theories and the European Union	252
	3. The Constitutionalisation of the EU out of the Perspective of Different Theories of Democracy	256
	4. The Theory of Radical Democracy	258
	5. References	267