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 …

national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

conceive of democracy in procedural terms, and not in substantive terms. However, the democratic legitimacy of laws stems from …? Third, what precisely must democracy prescribe as the indispensable condition for political legitimacy? … explores three questions. First, in what situation does the absence of a concrete understanding of democracy become an …

hinder the operation of commissions in Australia and how legitimacy and institutional trust can be created, maintained and …

in der Theorie der deliberativen Demokratie kritisch aufgearbeitet. Während der Ansatz Komplementaritäten zwischen den … Demokratie einbeziehen und damit die Dialektik von institutionellen und situativen Dimensionen der Planung erschließen. … deliberative democracy theory. While the approach reveals complementarities between the theories, it also argues that each theory …

Responsibility (CSR). One camp argues that CSR expansion is likely during periods of economic liberalization because CSR tends to … membership in business-led CSR organizations in over thirty countries from 1981 to 2008, we show that economic liberalization has … a strong effect on CSR expansion when the legitimacy of CSR is low. However, when the practice has achieved substantial …