White, Jonathan 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4668-698X
(2010)
Responding to norm indeterminacy outside the nation-state frame.
Comparative Sociology, 9 (5).
pp. 611-630.
ISSN 1569-1322
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Abstract
I examine responses to norm indeterminacy in the transnational context, focusing on regional integration in post-War Europe. I argue that the development of the European Union has been facilitated by the use of a legitimizing device whereby policy decisions at a European level are cast as beyond the scope of reasonable political disagreement and therefore distinct from the conditions which make democracy a desirable political form at the national level. This rejection of the political significance of norm indeterminacy has led to a widely diagnosed trend of “depoliticization” in European politics. The paper examines how best to understand this trend, and explores how an adapted account of “enlightened localism” might offer better ways of coping with indeterminate norms.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.brill.nl/coso |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 Brill |
| Divisions: | European Institute |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2011 14:04 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2024 08:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33475 |
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