Add to ORKGSince 1957, the European Economic Community (EEC) has undergone profound constitutional changes, dictated by the geographic and functional expansion of the EU, but also by the need to heal its original sin: the “democratic deficit”. Despite these innovations, the “democratic deficit” still exists as a deficiency with regard to “input legitimacy”, i.e. as a “discrepancy between the pervasive effects of the regulative power of the EU and the weak authorization of this power through the citizens of the Member States who are specifically affected by those regulations”. Even though the democratic value of the involvement of people and civil society in decision-making remains contentious, more than a decade after the publication of the 2001 Whi...
Although debates on the European public sphere deficit as a hallmark of the European Union's democra...
As the European Union has enlarged in terms of its membership, and expanded in terms of its competen...
For the European Union of the 21st century, the search for sustainable prosperity and stability incl...
Since 1957, the European Economic Community (EEC) has undergone profound constitutional changes, dic...
There is a longstanding debate on the EU’s democratic deficit. Recently, the EU has responded to thi...
In the long history of the debates on the European Union’s democratic deficit, two prominent lines o...
Abstract: Representative democracy is losing some of its gloss and citizens are turning away from co...
The EU has always been characterized by a legitimacy deficit due to the weakness of political repres...
The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is the latest in a line of institutional innovations that ha...
European citizens' initiative was introduced by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ...
The European Union’s attempts to improve its democratic character increasingly often lead to debates...
Because representative democracy may be reaching its limits, the EU has turned to participatory demo...
The European Union (EU) has undergone constant political and economic integration since its inceptio...
The democratic legitimacy of the European Union has become an increasingly urgent issue. In searchin...
The changing social environment prompted the European Union (EU) to rethink its strategies towards i...
Although debates on the European public sphere deficit as a hallmark of the European Union's democra...
As the European Union has enlarged in terms of its membership, and expanded in terms of its competen...
For the European Union of the 21st century, the search for sustainable prosperity and stability incl...
Since 1957, the European Economic Community (EEC) has undergone profound constitutional changes, dic...
There is a longstanding debate on the EU’s democratic deficit. Recently, the EU has responded to thi...
In the long history of the debates on the European Union’s democratic deficit, two prominent lines o...
Abstract: Representative democracy is losing some of its gloss and citizens are turning away from co...
The EU has always been characterized by a legitimacy deficit due to the weakness of political repres...
The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is the latest in a line of institutional innovations that ha...
European citizens' initiative was introduced by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ...
The European Union’s attempts to improve its democratic character increasingly often lead to debates...
Because representative democracy may be reaching its limits, the EU has turned to participatory demo...
The European Union (EU) has undergone constant political and economic integration since its inceptio...
The democratic legitimacy of the European Union has become an increasingly urgent issue. In searchin...
The changing social environment prompted the European Union (EU) to rethink its strategies towards i...
Although debates on the European public sphere deficit as a hallmark of the European Union's democra...
As the European Union has enlarged in terms of its membership, and expanded in terms of its competen...
For the European Union of the 21st century, the search for sustainable prosperity and stability incl...