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democratic legitimation and derive testable hypotheses. Third, we introduce the dataset and research design. Fourth, we empirically assess our hypotheses. To this end, we describe the general patterns in IOs’ democratic legitimation. Subsequently, we present the results of a negative binomial count model. The concluding section summarizes the proper subject of self-determination in the EU, and thus no possible democratic legitimation-substrate. In this form, it appeals to an alleged general principle of legitimation—no demos, no democracy.

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The questions of legitimacy and legitimation are both relevant to the EU as a crisis manager for two reasons. First, although the question of “what bases of The great majority of those participating in the Convention believed that an important way to make the European Union more democratic was to strengthen the European Parliament’s role in EU The EU’s economic crisis has generated a crisis of democratic legitimacy, as deteriorating economics and increasingly volatile politics have combined with restrictive governance processes focused on ‘governing by the rules and ruling by the numbers.’ Using the systems-related terms of democratic theory, this paper first analyzes A political institution is legitimate when it succeeds in persuading people of the normative necessity of its existence. In a democratic system, this can be based both on various forms of popular consent (democratic legitimacy) and on other kinds of foundations (generic legitimacy). publics lambast the EU for its democratic deficit, they invoke the notion that there is a gap between facts and norms. The very invocation of such a gap is an acknowledgement of the fact that we can or should assess the multilevel EU against democratic legitimacy norms. But even among the great majority of analysts that charge the EU with being The Euro crisis has a major impact on the EU as such and on its member states. A key dimension of it concerns the democratic legitimation by national parliaments of the measures taken to face the crisis.

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A key dimension of it concerns the democratic legitimation by national parliaments of the measures taken to face the crisis. Perpetuating the general trend of de-parliamentarization triggered by European integration, national parliaments find it ever more difficult to control their executives in times of these It is generally acknowledged that the existing governance structures and mechanism of the EU “are not able to provide democratic legitimation for the EU polity as a whole” (Héritier 1999:208; European Commission 2003a: 38).

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The concluding section summarizes the Introduction: Europe and the people-Examining the EU's democratic legitimacy Adam Hug1 The EU finds itself in a period of severe political turbulence. Though this collection comes into being with the UK’s continued membership of the European Union very much in doubt, the UK is far from alone amongst member framework is from which to assess the democratic legitimacy of the EU. Secondly, the working paper identifies what issues of democratic legitimacy EU migration governance gives rise to. Thirdly, the paper turns to the complex interplay of values and preferences in migration issues, and asks how EU fundamental values enter the legitimacy debate. Some contend that democratic control and accountability have to be carried out at the level at which decisions are taken and, therefore, the role of the European Parliament should be strengthened. Nevertheless, increasing the European Parliament’s powers would not definitively settle the question of EU democratic legitimacy. Andrew Moravcsik, "The Myth of Europe's Democratic Deficit," Intereconomics: Journal of European Public Policy (November-December 2008), pp. 331-340.

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Such criticisms rest on a vague understanding of what the “democratic deﬁ cit” is, ignore concrete empirical 2020-02-23 Restate follesdal and Hix; rise of EP into a source of democratic legitimation as well as ever-increasing competencies given to the EU, the roll of national parliaments has fallen. -not a sufficiently thick sense of European demos e.g.

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the EP is the prime and sole responsible of the democratic legitimacy of EU institutions’ decisions, is however strongly anchored, even in areas where not all Member States participate thereby setting the EP in a more dubious position (in the Four Presidents’ Report the principle that accountability should follow the level of decision-making has been This serves as basis to study the urgency of the democratic challenge in the EU economic governance, as well as its specificity. After the contributions to this special issue are briefly presented, this introduction examines what they bring to the overall debate on democratic legitimacy in this policy domain, among others in terms of the difficulties that have arisen across Member States. 2021-04-09 · This article examines the quality of democracy and legitimacy of the EU. If the EU can be considered democratic in terms of its institutional set-up, it is so in ways unlike those of nation-state democracies. While the lack of democratic legitimation in the European polity is striking when measured against member state parliamentarian democracies, this focus shifts attention off those less obvious empirical processes which enhance democratic legitimation in Europe. divided democratic legitimation into output,judged in terms of the effectiveness of the EU’s policy outcomes for the people, and input, judged in terms of the EU’s responsiveness to citizen concerns as a result of participation by the people.Missing from this theorization of The answers to the questions in the title of this chapter are that democratic legitimation, like a democratic polity, is many things linked by a common phrase, that different people want these different things for many different reasons and with many different expectations, and that it is both easier and more difficult than is often thought to know when their expectations have been realized. 1 So before anything else, some definitions are called for.

The role and operations of the Troika ECB, Commission and

EMP lectionary decided on national issues not European issues, no political parties (only groupings), decline in voter turnout. This essay examines the difficulty of defining and addressing the question of the democratic legitimacy in the EU. It examines the role of the national parliaments in the treaties and explores ways in which they can contribute to improving that legitimacy.

5. Yet the European “democratic deﬁ cit” is a myth. Such criticisms rest on a vague understanding of what the “democratic deﬁ cit” is, ignore concrete empirical 2020-02-23 Restate follesdal and Hix; rise of EP into a source of democratic legitimation as well as ever-increasing competencies given to the EU, the roll of national parliaments has fallen.