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The Constitutional Deficit, Constituent Activism, and the (Conference on the) Future of Europe

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2021

Abstract

The chapter seeks to analyze and clarify constitutional mobilization on the transnational level. It will build on literature on constitutional mobilization and will distinguish-following in part Peter Niesen (2019b)-between different constituent practices: constituent articu lation, constituent activation, constituent action, and comprehensive constituent or radical constituting claims.

Such distinctions help to diversify between forms of mobilization and a variety of claims, and to bring out the relative distance of transnational actors regarding formal institutions and processes (of amendment).