Rittberger, Berthold - In: Journal of Common Market Studies 41 (2003) 2, pp. 203-225
system of international governance, contains a powerful representative institution, the European Parliament, and why it has … consequentialist legitimacy which political elites are fully aware of. To repair this imbalance, proposals to empower the European … Parliament play a prominent though not exclusive role. Three landmark events are analysed to assess the plausibility of the …