Representation and Institutional Make-up

Work package 3

WP Leader

Christopher Lord, ARENA, University of Oslo

 

The aim of studying representation and institutional make-up in the multilevel European polity is to assess the status of democracy in Europe, with emphasis on:

• Clarifying the nature of the challenges facing systems of representation at the national and supranational levels in Europe
• Analysing interactions between these levels
• Establishing the direction of change – towards which of the three RECON models do these systems develop?
• Evaluating the democratic quality of these arrangements
  

Such an assessment presupposes proper attention to the broader institutional settings within which patterns of representation are entrenched in the European multilevel setting. Given that there are limitations in the electoral model of democracy, WP 3 also conceptualizes new kinds of institutional arrangements for establishing alternative models of accountability on the basis of the theory of deliberative democracy.

More details on the research objectives of WP 3.

WP 3 events

Publications and activities

RECON participants WP 3:

ARENA, University of Oslo
Chris Lord (leader WP 3), John Erik Fossum, Pieter de Wilde

Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Zdenka Mansfeldová, Petra Rakusanová

Riga Graduate School of Law
Kristine Kruma, Tatjana Evas

University of Reading
Dionysia Tamvaki

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ben Crum, Eric Miklin

Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Johannes Pollak, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre, Peter Slominski

Mannheim Center for European Social Research
Berthold Rittberger, Arndt Wonka