principle, precaution requires EU regulators to strike a balance between scientific and political legitimacy when taking …

. 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 … important implications for institutional as well as democratization analysis of the EU and International Organizations in …

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 …

discourse on the EU. In order to reconstruct how interests, identities and normative ideas relating to the legitimacy of an EU …

. The present study seeks to explore the role of online public consultations in enhancing democratic legitimacy at the … legitimacy and discusses the role of civil society as a cure for the democratic deficit of European policy-making. Second, it …

institutions, this paper offers a theory of democratization for transnational polities. Democratizing a polity such as the European … that realize freedom as nondomination. In light of these conditions, the republican dimension of democratization can be … made explicit in a conception of a democratic minimum, in which democratization depends upon the effective capacity of …