Treaty ruling. This is needed because the ruling is ambiguous with regard to what democracy for what Union. In order to … analyse the ruling we establish three models of what European democracy possibly can amount to: Audit democracy based on the …’s argumentation does not lend support to this notion. The Court models democracy on a rather specific set of institutional …

the EU. Such a solution entails reconstituting democracy (rather than simply abolishing the EU or uploading nation …-state democracy to the EU-level). We briefly outline three models for how to reconstitute democracy in Europe; each of which reflects …

Europeanisation and globalisation are frequently held to undermine national democracy. What are then the prospects for … democracy in the multi-level constellation that makes up the contemporary European political order? The European debate has … taken the question of democracy beyond the nation state. But can there be democracy without nation and state? The authors …

create a volatile dynamic for the future of democracy at both national and EU level. …

order to come to grips with this we present an institutional variant of deliberative theory, which understands democracy as …. We show that the EU has established an incomplete system of representative democracy steeped in a distinct representation …

production of international or global law. Thus questions about the legitimacy of global law and governance arise particularly …, but not only, when they have constitutionalism- and democracy eviscerating effects. The discourse of global … best of what the older sovereignty regime of international law had to offer – constitutionalism, democracy, self …

. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …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 …

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 …

critical points of the first four parts relate to European studies discussions on legitimacy in general and to RECON …