majority rule at the European level. In order to ensure democratic legitimacy, however, majoritarian legislation would have to …European integration has come to constrain the capacity for democratic political action in EU member states through the … judicial constitutionalization of "economic liberties," whereas the capacity for effective political action at the European …

legitimacy. Moreover, present efforts by EMU governments to “rescue the euro” will do little to correct the economic imbalances …

This paper provides a conceptual analysis of the EU's legitimation status through the lens of a realist account of … legitimacy. We propose a modification of Bernard Williams' theory of liberal legitimacy, and use it to make sense of the widely … perceived legitimation crisis of the EU. In Williams' well-known formula, "Basic Legitimation Demand + Modernity = Liberalism …