If at First You Don\u27t Succeed: Vote, Vote Again: Analyzing the Second Referendum Phenomenon in EU Treaty Change

The aim of this Essay is to probe the causes of the European Union\u27s ( EU ) second-referendum practice with a view to better understand what strikes many observers as a procedurally bizarre and democratically dubious exercise. It is not the intention of this Essay to offer any justification for the practice, but rather to explain the factors specific to the EU which have contributed to its recurrence

Gênero nas publicações acadêmicas = Gender in academic publishing

Traduzido por: Gabriel Dias Marques da Cruz, Amanda Nunes Lopes Espiñeira Lemos, Ana Maria Vitória Santos de Freitas, Andrezza Ribeiro de Souza, Kauane Nunes Alcedino, Mirela Gonçalves Portugal

Constitutionalising the Open Method of Coordination: A Note for the Convention. CEPS Policy Brief No. 31, March 2003

[From the Introduction]. Within the Convention process, the final reports of no less than four separate working groups – those on Simplification, Complementary Competences, Economic Governance and Social Europe – have come out in favour of including the ‘Open Method of Coordination’ (OMC) within the Constitutional Treaty. The relevant sections of these reports are attached in an annex. [AEI Editor's comments: This report discusses each of these reports]