Towards a Transnational Theory of Justice for the EU:A Non-domination Approach

该项目的目的是发展一种新颖的理论，为制定欧盟层面的公共政策提供规范性标准。他的论点是，允许欧盟公民在社会和政治上占主导地位的欧盟政策是错误的，因为它们干扰了基本自由的有力行使，基本自由被定义为一个人能够作为一个自主主体行事所必需的一系列根深蒂固的自由。这一方针的前提是，有尊严地对待人需要尊重和支持他们作为行动者的能力。当且仅当一项政策的实施使每个欧盟公民都能有效控制社会和政治权力对他们施加的方式时，该政策才符合这一规范性标准。当欧盟的政策无法提供充分的跨国社会和政治权利时，就会危及欧盟公民行使这种有效控制权的能力。采用这种方法有几个好处：首先，它可以解释技术官僚机构的问题，这些机构为了改善公民的经济福祉而限制了公民对政策的有效控制。其次，它有助于强调这样一个事实：增加一些欧盟公民享有的选择范围，与剥夺其他人对其基本自由的有效控制是相容的。第三，它将社会和政治支配视为一种错误的保护，这种保护应该在多种情况下对所有欧盟公民都有效，而不是取决于成员国是否能从遵守这种保护措施中获利。

The aim of the project is to develop a novel theory that can offer normative criteria for devising public policies at the level of the EU. The thesis is that EU policies that allow for the social and political domination of EU citizens are wrong because they interfere with the robust exercise of basic liberties, defined as the bundle of entrenched freedoms required for one to be able to act as an autonomous agent. This approach is based on the premise that treating people with dignity requires respecting and supporting their capacity to act as agents. A policy meets this normative criterion if and only if its implementation results in every EU citizen having effective control over the way in which social and political power is exercised over them. When EU policy provides inadequate transnational access to social and political rights it jeopardises EU citizens’ ability to exercise such effective control. Adopting this approach has several advantages: first, it can explain what is wrong with technocratic institutions that restrict citizens’ effective control over policies for the sake of improving their economic well-being. Second, it helps to highlight the fact that increasing the range of options that some EU citizens enjoy is compatible with depriving others with effective control over their basic liberties. Third, it treats social and political domination as a wrong protection from which should be robust across a number of scenarios for all EU citizens rather than conditional on whether a member-state profits from observing such safeguards.