ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how …

. However, the emerging Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) has been criticized for its lack of democratic legitimacy … European Union (EU) to enhance legitimacy or is this process a result of inter-institutional dynamics? Are these mechanisms …

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

This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

action: police actions and military operations. Here a 2005 decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court upon the …

legitimacy-trap. An elected convention would probably be more democratic, because such an institution would be more public as …

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

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 …