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 …

-making processes as it is not only the quality of the outcomes that determine the democratic legitimacy of policy-making, but also the …

discourse on the EU. In order to reconstruct how interests, identities and normative ideas relating to the legitimacy of an EU …

. The present study seeks to explore the role of online public consultations in enhancing democratic legitimacy at the … legitimacy and discusses the role of civil society as a cure for the democratic deficit of European policy-making. Second, it …