Political corruption has a negative effect on the process of democratization. One of the democratic components affected by corruption is legitimacy. Using Euro Barometer opinion polls I measure legitimacy as the trust in politicians and political and judicial institutions. I test the effect of...

This paper seeks to shed light on a notion that is often considered essential in conferring global regulatory authority, but is rarely defined in contemporary scholarship on global governance: the notion of legitimacy. The authors center their analysis on the value of democracy as one of the...

The European Monetary Union (EMU) has removed crucial instruments of macroeconomic management from the control of democratically accountable governments. Worse yet, it has been the systemic cause of destabilizing macroeconomic imbalances that member states found difficult or impossible to...