Given intractable secular moral pluralism, the force and significance of the four principles (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice) of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress must be critically re-considered. This essay examines the history of the articulation of these four principles of bioethics, showing why initially there was an illusion of a common morality that led many to hold t...

The article is built on four propositions. First, that there is a latent potential within the German polity for the mobilisation of what remains a significant level of popular unease about aspects of the ongoing process of European integration. Second, that at present this potential is unfulfilled and, as a result, Euroscepticism remains the ‘dark matter’ of German politics. Third, that the abs...

Abstract It has been well established in the literature that “something like politicization” occurred with regard to European Union (EU). The phenomenon assessed and confirmed different venues, including party manifestos, parliamentary debates media. However, studies tend overlook potential differences between distinct arenas of political discourse disregard fact Europe is a multidimensional is...

This paper begins with the proposition that EU faces a problem of politics or to put it another way is characterized by trap and consequential. A trap, for purpose this paper, defined as position situation from which difficult impossible escape. The idea draws on seminal article Scharpf joint-decision (Scharpf, 1988) had major impact study EU. focus an analysis examining three components politi...

Keyssar's largely intellectual history of suffrage throughout the nation's history and Kornbluh's largely quantitative analysis of the transition from nearly universal male political participation in the late 1800s to the much less active polity of the twentieth century underscore a simple, but often neglected lesson: Because words and behavior are sometimes at variance, scholars should study b...

How can the EU obtain legitimacy? On the basis of three logics of political integration we identify explicit strategies for how the legitimacy deficit of the EU can be remedied. The first strategy amounts to a scaling down of the ambitions of the polity-makers in the EU. It defines the EU as a problem-solving or special purpose organisation. Here the EU’s own legitimacy is held to be dependent ...