Justice, Not Democracy: Legitimacy in the European Union
Justice, Not Democracy: Legitimacy in the European Union
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正义，而非民主：欧盟的合法性
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02079.x
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发表时间：
2010
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J. Neyer
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作者：
J. Neyer
欧盟经常被评估为民主标准，而它没有公平的机会实现民主。如果欧盟要摆脱其深刻的合法性危机，就需要一个新的、有吸引力的规范性议程。本文建议用欧盟对跨国正义的贡献来取代欧盟民主赤字的论述。虽然民主话语通常侧重于议会权限和政府分裂，但关于正义的话语以人民为中心，主要强调权力不对称和克服合理政治结果的障碍。从正义角度分析欧盟的提议并没有降低规范标准，而是纠正了它。
The EU is often assessed against the standard of democracy, which it has no fair chance to fulfil. A new and attractive normative agenda is needed if the EU is to escape its deep legitimacy crisis. This article proposes to substitute the discourse on the democratic deficit of the EU with a discourse on its contribution to transnational justice. Whilst the democratic discourse most often focuses on parliamentary competences and divided government, the discourse on justice centres on the people, puts primary emphasis on power asymmetries and on overcoming the obstacles to justifiable political outcomes. The proposal to analyse the EU in terms of justice does not lower the normative standard but corrects it.