Il potere dell’Unione europea

Il potere dell’Unione europea

Public power has been justified by resorting to two different kinds of legitimation: the one coming from above, the other emerging from the governed. While the legitimation «from above» implies that those who are vested with executive power are qualified to their function because of their allegedly...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Cyhoeddwyd yn:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/tp,
Prif Awdur: Dellavalle, Sergio
Fformat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Iaith:Italien
Cyhoeddwyd: Teoria politica 2020
Pynciau:
Democracy
Power
Technocracy
European Union
Legitimation
Mynediad Ar-lein:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:tp_658 it https://journals.openedition.org/tp/658 2020-05-26T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/lh9b All rights reserved Il potere dell’Unione europea Teoria politica Rosenberg & Sellier info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1972-5477 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0394-1248 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/tp Dellavalle, Sergio Democracy Power Technocracy European Union Legitimation Public power has been justified by resorting to two different kinds of legitimation: the one coming from above, the other emerging from the governed. While the legitimation «from above» implies that those who are vested with executive power are qualified to their function because of their allegedly higher competences, the «bottom-up» legitimacy always presupposes that only the citizens can properly decide on their destiny. After giving a brief account of how both legitimation strategies have developed in the history of political ideas, the author focuses his attention on the theories regarding the legitimacy of public power in the European Union. Indeed, both strands of legitimation of public power are here represented with original proposals, according to the specificity of the supranational condition. But even more interesting is that the research into the characteristics of supranational integration has been one of the most significant fields in which the legitimation «from above» has reappeared in Western thought after a rather long period of marginality, now taking the shape of a technocratic justification. In the main section of the article, the reasons in favour of a democratic «bottom-up» legitimation of the European public power are analyzed first, then those which recur to the so-called «output legitimacy» —in other words to technocratic arguments. The last section of the contribution is dedicated to an overall assessment of the different positions.
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topic Democracy
Power
Technocracy
European Union
Legitimation
spellingShingle Democracy
Power
Technocracy
European Union
Legitimation
Dellavalle, Sergio
Il potere dell’Unione europea
description Public power has been justified by resorting to two different kinds of legitimation: the one coming from above, the other emerging from the governed. While the legitimation «from above» implies that those who are vested with executive power are qualified to their function because of their allegedly higher competences, the «bottom-up» legitimacy always presupposes that only the citizens can properly decide on their destiny. After giving a brief account of how both legitimation strategies have developed in the history of political ideas, the author focuses his attention on the theories regarding the legitimacy of public power in the European Union. Indeed, both strands of legitimation of public power are here represented with original proposals, according to the specificity of the supranational condition. But even more interesting is that the research into the characteristics of supranational integration has been one of the most significant fields in which the legitimation «from above» has reappeared in Western thought after a rather long period of marginality, now taking the shape of a technocratic justification. In the main section of the article, the reasons in favour of a democratic «bottom-up» legitimation of the European public power are analyzed first, then those which recur to the so-called «output legitimacy» —in other words to technocratic arguments. The last section of the contribution is dedicated to an overall assessment of the different positions.
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title Il potere dell’Unione europea
title_short Il potere dell’Unione europea
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