Democratic deficit and legitimacy of european institutions

This bachelor thesis is written from the position of a student of the International Territorial Studies at the Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies at the Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic with the objective to theoretically investigate and analyse the alleged deficiencies in the democratic polity and institutions of the European Union. In order to do that, this bachelor thesis aims to introduce the main features and development of democracy, polity of the European Union and forms which the alleged democratic deficit may take. Moreover, main governing institutions of the EU (European Commission, Council of the European Union, European Parliament) are believed to cause this alleged phenomenon from its insufficient legitimacy and hence they are the very source and the reason of criticism of the EU. This thesis therefore also compares these main institutions with the main governing institutions of the USA (US Congress, the President of the USA) which are considered to be democratic and legitimate towards the electorate in order to find the differences and possibly spot the insufficiencies of the democratic polity of the EU