production of international or global law. Thus questions about the legitimacy of global law and governance arise particularly …

This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on … political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical … approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on societal constellations of citizens’ beliefs. The dynamic character of …

critical points of the first four parts relate to European studies discussions on legitimacy in general and to RECON …

examines the question of democratic legitimacy from one particular angle, by examining public opinion towards the EU’s Common …

. However, the emerging Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) has been criticized for its lack of democratic legitimacy … European Union (EU) to enhance legitimacy or is this process a result of inter-institutional dynamics? Are these mechanisms …

constitutionalisation from below further. That incremental striving for a law-mediated legitimacy of European governance remains, so the …