European Union (EU) in 2004, the British government endorsed this policy. Since the legitimacy of elite actions on EU affairs … public support for EU enlargement in Britain. It then examines the nature of the relationship between elites and public …

study of the European Parliament. I introduce the necessary notions of legitimacy, democracy, democratic deficit and present …The theme of this review is the democratic deficit in the institutional structures of the European Union with a case … structure and development, is the institution that tries to reduce the democratic deficit in the European Union, I analyze to …

There is a longstanding debate on the EU's democratic deficit. Recently, the EU has responded to this by, for example … citizens' participation that are rooted in the idea of participatory and deliberative democracy and supported by the EU … ‘best practices'? What are their effects? And what can we learn from them for the possibilities of participatory governance …

exposure led to persistently higher EU support in three important referenda and less success of Eurosceptic parties in …

This chapter argues that the debate on the democratic ‘deficit' or ‘default' of the EU, both generally and specifically … a symbiotic world of socio-economic interests. Consequently, the ‘democratic deficit' of the EU cannot be palliated … with reference to the Euro-crisis, is misplaced. What is usually perceived as a crisis of EU democracy is a manifestation …

the same and the logics of behaviour are quite different. The EU calls for truly Europarties to become more democratic in … European level but also an integration between them. In fact, we will have full Europarties only when the two party structures … at EU level are either independent from national parties and linked to each other: if intra- and extra- parliamentary …

Giandomenico Majone and Andrew Moravcsik have argued that the EU does not suffer a ‘democratic deficit.' We disagree … aspect is an essential element of even the ‘thinnest' theories of democracy, yet is conspicuously absent in the EU …

qualitative coding of transcribed group deliberations we can draw the following generalised conclusions: 1) The EU polity is …

qualitative coding of transcribed group deliberations we can draw the following generalised conclusions: 1) The EU polity is …