Delors' Myth: The Scope and Impact of the Europeanization of Law Production
Delors' Myth: The Scope and Impact of the Europeanization of Law Production
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德洛尔神话：法律生产欧洲化的范围和影响
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4614-1502-2_1
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
T. König
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作者：
S. Brouard;O. Costa;T. König
自20世纪90年代初以来，关于欧洲一体化和欧洲委员会、理事会和欧洲议会之间“民主”权力分配的理论和规范性辩论吸引了学者、政治家和舆论领袖。“民主赤字”的概念源于这样一种假设，即欧盟的立法活动加强了部长理事会等政府行为者的权力，损害了议会的权力。而莫拉夫奇克（2004，2008）认为，这些政府代理人是民主选举的代理人，他们的国家选区，对民主赤字的关注已经加强了自20世纪80年代末以来，在部长理事会中逐步扩大的合格多数投票：从理论上讲，一些政府代理人可能被排除在外，理事会审议缺乏透明度，这使得它们受到国内议会负责人的有效控制，这很困难，因为议会成员甚至缺乏关于他们在理事会中的政府代理人投票行为的可靠信息（Scharpf 1993; Hix 1999，2005; Majone 1998; Moravcsik 1994，2002; Lord 2004; Bartoloni 2005; Follesdal和Hix 2006; Siedentop 2001; Jachtenfuchs 2001; Rittberger and Schimmelfennig 2005; Follesdal and Hix 2006; Olsen 2007; Magnette and Papadopoulos 2008; Konig 2008）。
Since the beginning of the 1990s numerous theoretical and normative debates on European integration and the “democratic” distribution of power among the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, and the European Parliament have entertained scholars, politicians, and opinion leaders alike. The “democracy deficit” concept stems from the hypothesis that EU legislative activities have strengthened the power of governmental actors from the Council of Ministers at the expense of parliaments. While Moravcsik (2004, 2008) argues that these governmental agents are democratically elected agents of their national constituencies, the concerns about a democratic deficit have been reinforced by the progressive extension of qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers since the end of the 1980s: theoretically, the possible exclusion of some governmental agents and the lack of transparency of Council deliberations made their effective control by their domestic parliamentary principals extremely difficult, as members of parliament even lack reliable information on the voting behavior of their governmental agents in the Council (Scharpf 1993; Hix 1999, 2005, Majone 1998; Moravcsik 1994, 2002; Lord 2004; Bartoloni 2005; Follesdal and Hix 2006; Siedentop 2001; Jachtenfuchs 2001; Rittberger and Schimmelfennig 2005; Follesdal and Hix 2006; Olsen 2007; Magnette and Papadopoulos 2008; Konig 2008).