Between Federation and Confederation: the EU’s ‘Ac-countability Deficit’ as the Result of Structural Hybridity
      
      
        
      
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          The European Union is increasingly a model for other organisations around the world, from ASEAN to the Eurasian Economic Union. This paper analyses the EU as a partly-federal and partly-confederal body, and argues that its hybrid nature and corresponding lack of governmental and insti-tutional clarity lead to an accountability deficit. This deficit may be exploited by Eurosceptic par-ties, causing the EU to be held accountable at an institutional level.
        
        
       
      
      
      
        
        
        
        
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              - IFF Working Paper Online ; 20
 
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          https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/324201
        
 
   
  
  
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