majority rule at the European level. In order to ensure democratic legitimacy, however, majoritarian legislation would have to …

lacks democratic legitimacy on the national and the European level. Assuming that complete integration in a democratic …

- which, in turn, depends on the support of socially shared legitimacy beliefs. In Western constitutional democracies, such … voluntary compliance of its member states. What matters primarily, therefore, is the compliance-legitimacy relationship between … the Union and its member states - which, however, is normatively constrained by the basic compliance-legitimacy …

The function of legitimacy is to ensure voluntary compliance with unwelcome exercises of governing authority. Since … not have to face its citizens directly. It follows that the legitimacy of European governance ought to be conceptualized … at two levels. At one level, the legitimacy of member states is decisive for the compliance of individuals and firms …

legitimacy. Moreover, present efforts by EMU governments to “rescue the euro” will do little to correct the economic imbalances …

This essay re-examines the dual – republican and liberal – foundations of democratic legitimacy in the Western … polity and to the normative potential of legitimacy intermediation in its two-step compliance and legitimating relationships …

present European euro-rescuing regime lacks democratic legitimacy. But policy choices might now become politicised in the …