Drawing on theories of legitimacy and democratic deficits in international politics this paper provides an actor …-centered relational approach of mapping legitimacy-flows within the transnational policy network of the Bologna Process for a European … Higher Education Area. It is shown that legitimacy (either in the form of symbolical or institutional capital conveyed in …

legitimacy. Moreover, present efforts by EMU governments to “rescue the euro” will do little to correct the economic imbalances …

legitimacy. We propose a modification of Bernard Williams' theory of liberal legitimacy, and use it to make sense of the widely … a 'legitimation story': an account of what plausibly sustains belief in legitimacy. This is, however, not a purely …

legitimacy. The paper considers the seriousness of this legitimacy problem. It starts by revisiting the classic division between … "input" and "output" legitimacy in the context of EMU and finds that, given a lack of will to commit to deeper integration … suggests that the "legitimacy problem" is manageable as long as national governments and parliaments are resolute in dealing …