study of the European Parliament. I introduce the necessary notions of legitimacy, democracy, democratic deficit and present …

symptoms of the problem. The Result is, that a political problem of legitimacy is called into the world that has mainly two …

that decentralization enhances the perceived legitimacy of irrigation management, which in turn increases the willingness … about water users’ legitimacy perceptions in five villages alongside an irrigation channel in Maharashtra, India. In two of … task has been decentralized to local water users associations (WUAs). To assess the impact of legitimacy perceptions on …

The salience of European issues to the general public is a major determinant of the domestic legitimacy demands that … the legitimacy demands that governments have to meet on the domestic level. Whereas the domestic legitimacy of European … legitimacy demands when formulating their European policies than German governments. This may contribute to accounting for both …

The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …