The salience of European issues to the general public is a major determinant of the domestic legitimacy demands that … the legitimacy demands that governments have to meet on the domestic level. Whereas the domestic legitimacy of European … legitimacy demands when formulating their European policies than German governments. This may contribute to accounting for both …

Legal and political science cannot merge, but they should, at the very least, listen to each other. This working paper … Joerges first summarises the objections against deliberative suprantionalism and comitology in legal science. He then presents …

"permissive consensus" by the public. The popular and legal challenges to the Maastricht Treaty questioned the legitimacy of … further integration.Normative political theory has responded to this legitimacy crisis by means of normative reasoning … of conceptions, mechanisms and objects of legitimacy. Section 4 presents a unifying perspective that may accommodate many …

The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …

Some academic circles have pointed out that the European Union and its Member States suffer from a legitimacy deficit …