depoliticization. As the experience of the EU suggests, the combination of popular democracy and legitimacy is proving increasingly …Although we still celebrate the late twentieth-century ‘victory of democracy’, our understanding of what democracy … devalue the role of elections and electoral accountability. This is also obviously seen in the politics of the European Union …

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

state capacity and low government legitimacy snarled up the national government's response. Despite an initial centralized …