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 …

In this paper, I explore in a systematic manner the different components of the democratic legitimacy of the Union from … constitutional traditions of the member states, which lend democratic legitimacy to the whole European legal order. On the other hand …