In this working paper, we treat legitimacy and legitimation as interactive, discursive and relational concepts …: Legitimacy is socially constructed in the public spheres of (democratic) political regimes, that is, in discursive exchanges of … political elites and citizens about the acceptability of these regimes. Legitimacy claims and assessments establish a link …

As the EU enters a new political cycle, this article provides a critical analysis of the state of EU democracy by … realities. It argues that it is for EU democracy — and potentially for the Conference on the Future of Europe — to rethink its … focusing on its two main components: representative and participatory democracy through their theoretical and practical …

their citizens." This papers seeks to identify the subject of legitimacy in the EU, the source of legitimate supranational … rests the authority of the EU on one single subject? At first glance, the dual structure of legitimacy seems to be … there are profound theoretical reasons to base the legitimacy of the EU on the individual, on the individual European …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …