Trust in political institutions is one of the key elements which make representative democracies work. Trust creates a … connection between citizens and representative political institutions. Democratic governments which enjoy a large degree of trust … also tend to have higher degrees of legitimacy and policy efficacy. In Europe’s multi-level governance structure, it is …

institutions primarily through discursive means. Tracing the foundations of this particular mode of policy entrepreneurship informs … assessed as a decisive contribution to the discourse on leadership, power and legitimacy in European policy reform, as it …

legitimacy. With regard to the EU, participation of civil society organisations are officially seen as a means of bridging the … legitimacy of the EU and is instrumental to institutional power games of the European Commission and the European Parliament …

institutions - the typical Community pattern - direct administration by the EU institutions or co-administration which implies some … coordination between both types of institutions. In an organic perspective, it can be allocated to the European Commission, EC … prominent, but comes only after reciprocal monitoring of EU and national institutions, parliamentary control, and the prominent …