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 …