Deliberation or bargaining? An analysis on the Convention on the future of Europe

Asia Europe Journal - Tập 6 - Trang 427-440 - 2007
Chen Zhao1
1Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

The feature of deliberation demonstrated in the Convention on the Future of Europe made it different from the inter-governmental conferences throughout the European integration process in the past. The article firstly clarifies the definition of deliberation, introduces deliberation and bargain concept in Communicative theory and Rhetoric theory and generalizes the gauge of deliberation. The article then moves from theory to case study, and gives a detailed account of the deliberation in the Convention in the perspectives of structure, atmosphere and institute setting. The author tries to seek the reason for the transformation from bargain in inter-governmental conferences to deliberation in the Convention during the European integration process. Finally, the author points out the limitation of deliberation in the Convention.

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