The nation state has over time become the natural locus for democracy and consequently also legitimate governance. Both concepts have been developed within the nation state and are therefore considered closely connected to it. Nation states are, however, not the only actor on the international arena anymore. The European integration is an example of a new actor, where nation states have started collaborating. Similar to nation states, EU has decision-making authorities and must therefore attain legitimacy. The thesis questions how legitimacy can be treated within an entity such as the EU. Three different ways of attaining legitimacy are brought up. The first perceives EU as legitimate in its current design with an intergovernmental part and...
How to legitimate the European Union and the integration process: EU governance approachHow to legit...
Ein systematischer Überblick über die akademische Debatte der Legitimität des Regierens innerhalb de...
This essay re-examines the dual – republican and liberal – foundations of democratic legitimacy in t...
The nation state has over time become the natural locus for democracy and consequently also legitima...
Defense date: 04/06/2008Examining Board: Professor Michael Keating, European University Institute, S...
The thesis compares national perspectives on the legitimacy of the European Union. It develops a def...
In the would-be policy of the European Union (EU), legitimacy is experienced as a problematical phen...
This thesis aims to describe and examine the democratic deficit critique and the problems with democ...
Conflicts of Legitimacies within the European Union - abstract In the beginning of first part, the t...
In order to be simultaneously effective and liberal, governments must normally be able to count on v...
The extensive deepening and widening of the European Union that has taken place during the 1990's h...
In this paper, in turn, I advance two claims. On the one hand, I explore the normative case for defe...
This paper reconceptualizes the challenge of legitimate governance in the European Union (EU) as a m...
The function of legitimacy is to ensure voluntary compliance with unwelcome exercises of governing a...
Democratic legitimacy for the EU is problematic if it is seen as a future nation-state. If instead t...
How to legitimate the European Union and the integration process: EU governance approachHow to legit...
Ein systematischer Überblick über die akademische Debatte der Legitimität des Regierens innerhalb de...
This essay re-examines the dual – republican and liberal – foundations of democratic legitimacy in t...
The nation state has over time become the natural locus for democracy and consequently also legitima...
Defense date: 04/06/2008Examining Board: Professor Michael Keating, European University Institute, S...
The thesis compares national perspectives on the legitimacy of the European Union. It develops a def...
In the would-be policy of the European Union (EU), legitimacy is experienced as a problematical phen...
This thesis aims to describe and examine the democratic deficit critique and the problems with democ...
Conflicts of Legitimacies within the European Union - abstract In the beginning of first part, the t...
In order to be simultaneously effective and liberal, governments must normally be able to count on v...
The extensive deepening and widening of the European Union that has taken place during the 1990's h...
In this paper, in turn, I advance two claims. On the one hand, I explore the normative case for defe...
This paper reconceptualizes the challenge of legitimate governance in the European Union (EU) as a m...
The function of legitimacy is to ensure voluntary compliance with unwelcome exercises of governing a...
Democratic legitimacy for the EU is problematic if it is seen as a future nation-state. If instead t...
How to legitimate the European Union and the integration process: EU governance approachHow to legit...
Ein systematischer Überblick über die akademische Debatte der Legitimität des Regierens innerhalb de...
This essay re-examines the dual – republican and liberal – foundations of democratic legitimacy in t...