Add to ORKGAre we witnessing a crisis of democratic legitimacy? While citizens may lose trust in political authorities, democratic principles and ideals continue to exercise considerable appeal. This Policy Brief argues that this paradox must be understood as a crisis of legitimation. Research suggests that legitimacy is inherently subjective and must be constantly re-earned. Low levels of political trust can be explained as the result of the complexity of globalised yet fragmented societies. The present feeling of malaise calls for a redefinition of the relationship between citizens and the authorities by which they are ruled. If popular sovereignty is to mean anything in today’s age, it requires a new legitimising narrative
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Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself. Yet,...
Governments across the industrialised world suffer a deep legitimacy crisis. Survey after survey sho...
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This article argues that the way EU competences are defined plays an important role in the social le...
One of the main problems the Union has to cope with is the difficulty in properly articulating the r...
This article analyses the development of legitimacy across 20 European democracies (1990-2010). The ...
Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself. Yet,...
Governments across the industrialised world suffer a deep legitimacy crisis. Survey after survey sho...
Defense date: 04/06/2008Examining Board: Professor Michael Keating, European University Institute, S...
Against the background of a renewed debate about democratic legitimacy, this essay discusses its con...
It is widely accepted that internationalization and the increasing loss of parliamentary control ove...
This thesis explores the relationship between legitimacy and inequality in well-established, embedde...
In light of multiple and existential crises, longstanding concerns about the European Union’s (EU) q...
This essay re-examines the dual – republican and liberal – foundations of democratic legitimacy in t...
This paper provides a realist analysis of the EU's legitimacy. We propose a modification of Bernard ...
This chapter presents the research questions and outline of the book, providing a brief review of th...
This paper addresses the relationship between political legitimacy arising from a link with the ‘wil...
How severe a problem is what many call the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU? Despite a voluminous theo...
This article argues that the way EU competences are defined plays an important role in the social le...
One of the main problems the Union has to cope with is the difficulty in properly articulating the r...
This article analyses the development of legitimacy across 20 European democracies (1990-2010). The ...