Follesdal, Andreas; Hix, Simon - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2005
and argument over the direction of the policy agenda. This aspect, which is ultimately the difference between a democracy … and an enlightened form of authoritarianism, is an essential element of even the ‘thinnest’ theories of democracy, yet is …-called ‘democratic deficit’ in the European Union. These two influential scholars both contend that much of the existing analysis is …