The RECON Online Working Paper Series publishes pre-print manuscripts on democracy and the democratisation of the political order in Europe. The topics of the series corresponds to the research focus of RECON's work packages. Papers are available in electronic version only (PDF format). 

RECON Online Working Paper 2007/19 (download pdf)	Integration Without Democracy? Three Conceptions of European Security Policy in Transformation	Helene Sjursen	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/18 (download pdf)	Assessing Democratic Legitimacy from a Deliberative Perspective An Analytical Framework for Evaluating the EU’s Second Pillar Decision-Making System	Anne Elizabeth Stie	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/17 (download pdf)	Do Europeans Speak With One Another in Time of War? Results of a Media Analysis on the 2003 Iraq War	Swantje Renfordt	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/16 (download pdf)	A Done Deal? The EU’s Legitimacy Conundrum Revisited	Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/15 (download pdf)	Enlargement in Perspective The EU's Quest for Identity	Helene Sjursen	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/14 (download pdf)	Theoretical Models of Fiscal Policies in the Euroland The Lisbon Strategy, Macroeconomic Stability and the Dilemma of Governance with Governments	Stefan Collignon	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/13 (download pdf)	The European Democratic Challenge	Agustín José Menéndez	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/12 (download pdf)	Measuring Europeanisation of Public Communication The Question of Standards	Hans-Jörg Trenz	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/11 (download pdf)	The Interpretative Moment of European Journalism The Impact of Newspaper Opinion Making in the Ratification Process	Hans-Jörg Trenz, Maximilian Conrad, Guri Rosén	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/10 (download pdf)	The Democratic Deficit in the EU’s Security and Defense Policy – Why Bother?	Wolfgang Wagner	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/09 (download pdf)	‘Doing Good’ in the World?  Reconsidering the Basis of the Research Agenda on the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy	Helene  Sjursen	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/08 (download pdf)	Old Wine in New Bottles?  The Actual and Potential Contribution of Civil Society Organisations to Democratic Governance in Europe	Dawid Friedrich	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/07 (download pdf)	Adversary or 'Depoliticized' Institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention	Thorsten Hüller	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/06 (download pdf)	The Constitutional Treaty Debates as Revelatory Mechanisms Insights for Public Sphere Research and Re-Launch Attempts	Christoph Meyer	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/05 (download pdf)	Taking Constitutionalism Beyond the State	Neil Walker	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/04 (download pdf)	Constitutional Patriotism Canada and the European Union	John Erik Fossum	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/03 (download pdf)	Conflict of Laws as Constitutional Form Reflections on International Trade Law and the Biotech Panel Report	Christian Joerges	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/02 (download pdf)	Democratizing the Transnational Polity The European Union and the Presuppositions for Democracy	James Bohman	Abstract
RECON Online Working Paper 2007/01 (download pdf)	Europe in Transformation How to Reconstitute Democracy?	Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum	Abstract

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