TY - BOOK A1 - Kasper, Nicole T1 - Die EU-Nachbarschaftspolitik als Instrument externer Demokratieförderung : das Beispiel der Ukraine N2 - Seit 2004 versucht die EU mit der Europäischen Nachbarschaftspolitik demokratische Werte in ihre Nachbarländer zu exportieren. Adressaten sind Länder der Mittelmeerunion und Länder des postsozialistischen Europa, die in der Östlichen Partnerschaft zusammengefasst sind. Als außenpolitisches Instrument bietet die Nachbarschaftspolitik eine Alternative zur Erweiterungspolitik. In erster Linie sollen negative Entwicklungen wie illegale Migration, organisierte Kriminalität, grenzübergreifende Umweltzerstörungen und ethnische Konflikte abgewehrt werden. Die Studie analysiert Externalisierung, Sozialisierung und Imitation als Mechanismen des Europäisierungsprozesses und untersucht im Rahmen einer empirischen Prozessanalyse am Beispiel der Ukraine, welche der von der Europäischen Union angewandten Mechanismen den größten Erfolg für eine Normenadaption bedeuten. T3 - WeltTrends Thesis - 15 KW - EU KW - Ukraine KW - Europäische Nachbarschaftspolitik KW - Demokratie KW - EU KW - Ukraine KW - European Neighbourhood Policy KW - Democracy Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-61807 SN - 978-3-86956-207-0 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleger, Heinz A1 - Mehlhausen, Thomas T1 - Indisputable and still disputed - European solidarity during the Euro crisis JF - Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft N2 - The term solidarity is lacking a precise definition despite being embedded as primary law in the EU treaties and regardless of its pivotal role in the current debate on the euro crisis. Once the semantic core is unearthed we sketch three dimensions of European solidarity (motives, references, level of action). Through this we shall distil three ideal types of an intergovernmental European solidarity: a federal, an organic and a distributive type. Empirically we assign the most relevant measures, which were discussed and partially enacted in the course of the euro crisis, to the three ideal types where we identify an increasing tendency towards a distributive solidarity. Once the first elements will be upgraded to a full-blown distributive solidarity through further integration, several risks arise from a normative perspective. KW - Solidarity KW - Euro Crisis KW - European Union KW - Democracy KW - Justice Y1 - 2013 SN - 0032-3470 VL - 54 IS - 1 SP - 50 EP - 74 PB - Nomos CY - Hannover ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Iorio, Marco T1 - Allocation of organ donation, public reason, and democracy JF - Ethik in der Medizin : Organ der Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin N2 - The current practice in allocating post-mortem organ donations is in many respects ethically problematic. After criticizing this practice, this article explores what a more morally acceptable practice could look like. The article concludes with an appeal for the random allocation of available donor organs. KW - Postmortal organ donation KW - Justice KW - Rawls KW - Political realism KW - Democracy Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00481-014-0320-x SN - 0935-7335 SN - 1437-1618 VL - 27 IS - 4 SP - 287 EP - 300 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Franzke, Jochen A1 - Schapp, Linze T1 - Beyond Charter and Index BT - Reassessing Local Autonomy JF - The Future of Local Self-Government : European Trends in Autonomy, Innovations and Central-Local Relations N2 - The Chapter examines the concept of local autonomy in modern European states by analysing theoretical approaches. The classical, deductive approach defines local autonomy mostly through legal, economic and financial conditions, especially by formal structures. This proves to be too weak to define the internal strength of local authorities and their real political-administrative power. A more multidimensional definition of autonomy, including indicators as importance, capacity, as well as discretion and democracy at local level is needed. The authors utilise the indicators, used by the Local Autonomy Index (LAI) developed by Ladner et al. and the European Charter of Local Self-Government to find out what is still missing. The contribution redounds to stimulate the scientific debate on local autonomy in Europe. Until the concept of local autonomy will fit for all European states with extremely differentiated local authorities, the research in this field remains a conceptual and heuristic endeavour. Especially, because local government and democracy are until now territory-based, whereas the reality is one of multilevel and cross-border governance. KW - European Charter of Local Self-Government KW - Local Autonomy Index KW - Capacity KW - Discretion KW - Democracy Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-030-56058-4 SN - 978-3-030-56059-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56059-1_3 SP - 31 EP - 42 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -