The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on … political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical … approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on societal constellations of citizens’ beliefs. The dynamic character of …

Contributions in the normative debate on the legitimacy of the EU are frequently based on two premises: The first … nation-state, but cannot justify the legitimacy of the EU. Consequently, it is claimed that there is an urgent need to re …-set the standards by which we assess the legitimacy of European integration and of the institutions which guide the process …