Network of Excellence on "Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-level Europe" (CONNEX)
Research question/goal:
CONNEX pursued three tasks:
- Taking stock of research on EU governance. The data from a survey covering all and countries in the wider Europe are accessible online at GOVDATA (about 1.600 individual research projects; govdata). A comparative evaluation of the state of the art will be published with Edward Elgar 2009. GOVDATA has been complemented by a bibliographic database GOVLIT with more than 2.500 entries (govlit/).
- Integrating and initiating research on core issues concerning efficient and democratic EU governance. Research collaboration was organised in six Research Groups coordinated at Mannheim, Dublin, Ljubljana, Oslo, Paris, and Utrecht. Colleagues from Mannheim have been active participants in all six Research Groups. At Mannheim Beate Kohler-Koch coordinated research on interest representation and civil society involvement with special emphasize on influence and democratic legitimacy. Research findings were discussed in numerous workshops and conferences and published in special issues, edited volumes, and as individual contributions in peer reviewed journals. In addition, the CONNEX Report Series (9 volumes) presents core findings of the Research Groups and Thematic Conferences dedicated to cross cutting questions.
- Disseminating research results and training young scholars. Apart from a well managed web-site (ranged among the top by IPSA) and a regular Newsletter, CONNEX has initiated an online working paper series EUROGOV – European Governance Papers and the Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG), both peer reviewed. EUROGOV will come to a close with the end of CONNEX, whereas the Living Reviews will be continued. CONNEX took great efforts to integrate young scholars into on-going research and, in addition, offered special seminars, summer schools, and expert supervision in international thematic oriented PhD networks.
Comprehensive information on activities and publications were available under connex-network.org. This page does not exist any longer. Some pages still can be found on the MZES pages (see "Links" in the right column).
Current stage:
Fact sheet expand
Funding:
EU
Duration:
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Status:
completed
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Geographic Space:
Europe
Publications expand
Edited Book
(2007):
European Elections after Eastern Enlargement. Preliminary Results from the European Election Study 2004.
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Book Chapter
Jachtenfuchs, Markus
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Beate Kohler-Koch
(2010):
Kapitel 4: Governance in der Europäischen Union.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
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Fabrice Larat
(2009):
Introduction: Research on EU Multi-Level Governance.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
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Berthold Rittberger
(2009):
A Futile Quest for Coherence: The Many Frames of EU Governance.
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Edler-Wollstein, Stefanie
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Beate Kohler-Koch
(2008):
It’s about participation, stupid. Is it? – Civil Society Concepts in Comparative Perspective .
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Hüller, Thorsten
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Beate Kohler-Koch
(2008):
Assessing the Democratic Value of Civil Society Engagement in the European Union.
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Maloney, William A.
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Jan W. van Deth
(2008):
Is Local Civil Society Conducive to European Participatory Engineering?.
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van Deth, Jan W.
(2008):
European Civil Society: The Empirical Reality in the Multi-Level System of the EU.
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Rittberger, Berthold
(2007):
Constructing Parliamentary Democracy in the European Union: How Did It Happen?.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
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Berthold Rittberger
(2007):
Charting Crowded Territory: Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union.
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Wüst, Andreas M.
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Hermann Schmitt
(2007):
Comparing the views of parties and voters in the 1999 election to the European Parliament.
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Knodt, Michèle
(2005):
Zivilgesellschaftliche Einbindung im Handelsbereich: Der Einfluss der WTO auf die Europäische Kommission.
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Journal Article
van Deth, Jan W.
(2009):
The 'Good European Citizen' Congruence and Consequences of Different Points of View.
European Political Science,
8,
pp. 175–189.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
(2008):
Civil society in EU governance – A remedy to the democratic accountability deficit?.
Concepts & Methods,
4,
pp. 3-6.
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Hüller, Thorsten
(2007):
Assessing EU strategies for publicity.
Journal of European Public Policy,
14,
pp. 563-581.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
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Berthold Rittberger
(2006):
Review Article: The "Governance Turn" in EU Studies.
Journal of Common Market Studies,
44,
pp. 27-49.
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Larat, Fabrice
(2005):
CONNEX - ein Exzellenznetzwerk zum "Regieren im europäischen Mehrebenensystem".
Integration,
28,
pp. 179-182.
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Presentation
Kohler-Koch, Beate
(2009):
Lessons of the past – for the research of the future - Beiträge aus dem deutschen Wissenschaftsdiskurs.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
(2008):
Regieren im Mehrebenensystem. Mehr Einfluss, weniger Verantwortung?.
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Wonka, Arndt
(2008):
Issue characteristics, quality of mobilization and influence of interest groups in EU decision-making.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
(2008):
Civil Society in EU governance: Towards a more efficient and democratic Union?.
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Larat, Fabrice
(2008):
Round table "Gains and disadvantages of large research projects/ EU research policy and the experience of NEWGOV and CONNEX".
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Larat, Fabrice
(2008):
Opening the black box: Reflexions on the nature and function of research integration.
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van Deth, Jan W.
(2007):
CONNEX Wrapping-Up Conference "Is Local Civil Society Conducive to European Participatory Engineering?".
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Rittberger, Berthold
(2007):
The historical trajectory of representation in the European Union.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
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Thorsten Hüller
(2007):
Assessing the Democratic Value of Civil Society Engagement in the European Union.
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Wonka, Arndt
(2007):
Issue characteristics, quality of mobilization and influence of interest groups in EU decision-making.
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Wilde, Kerstin
(2005):
The relation between Public Administrations and Civil Society Interests.
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Wilde, Kerstin
(2005):
Democratic standards and the definition of accountability: The Case of the Lobbying-Regulation in the European Parliament.
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Larat, Fabrice
(2005):
Squarring the circle : New FP6 instruments as a Challenge for the Research Community.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
(2005):
Section 18 'Efficient and Democratic European Governance: Dynamics and Obstacles'; Panel 4 'The Institutional Shaping of EU-Society Relations: the Role of the European Comission'; presentation on 'Organisation of Interest and Democracy in the EU'.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
(2005):
Integrating Research on Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-Level Europe.
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Kohler-Koch, Beate
(2005):
Dominant trends and changing patterns in EU interest intermediation.
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