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Assessing the legitimacy of the EU

Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 2011
The Lisbon Treaty could not meet the demands of many as regards the issue of the EU's legitimacy and democratic governance. By analyzing the literature on the legitimacy of the EU, the article shows why the EU has to fulfill the legitimacy criteria of ...
Direnç Kanol
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Norwegian police law, crime prevention and its (need for more) democratic legitimacy

Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2022
The article questions the democratic legitimacy of parts of contemporary Norwegian police law. The analysis focuses on the historical background of the Police Act, the lack of precise regulation of the police’s competences in general and lack of precise ...
John Reidar Nilsen
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A decentred assessment of the impact of ‘informal governance’ on democratic legitimacy

Public Policy and Administration, 2020
The aim of this article is to examine the impact of informal governance on democratic legitimacy. It draws on the literatures on informal governance and decentred theory to examine how governance mechanisms that are un-written, un-codified and non ...
S. Ayres
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Symbolic-Cognitive Proceduralism: A Model of Deliberative Legitimacy

Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2015
Burkhalter et al.’s (2002) self-reinforcing model of democratic deliberation is well established, but lacks an account of legitimacy, which is a key element of most democratic-deliberative theories.
John Gastil, Robert C. Richards
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Political context matters: Democratic legacy as a condition of the effects of education on democratic commitment of Latin Americans

América Latina Hoy, 2020
Education is considered the main factor in explaining political behavior. In studies of legitimacy, education is a strong predictor of support for democracy: the more education, the more democratic the attitudes.
Mario FUKS, Gabriel AVILA CASALECCHI
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Democratic legitimacy of the forest sector and nature conservation decision-making in Finnish print media discussion

Silva Fennica, 2011
The study explores perceived democratic legitimacy of forest-related decision-making processes in the Finnish print media discourse. The data consists of the readers’ letters in four journals (n = 530), and the comments given during the preparation of ...
Rantala, Tapio
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Leadership styles and the legitimacy of Kosovo’s leaders

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
This paper examines the relationship between leadership styles and the legitimacy of political leaders in post-conflict societies, using Kosovo as a case study.
Burim Mexhuani, Fitim Mexhuani
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Administrative legitimacy and the democratic deficit of the European Union

Journal of European Public Policy, 2018
Zuzana Murdoch, Sara Connolly, Hussein Kassim   +2 more
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The problem of legitimacy of democracy: Citizenship, participation, deliberation [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2006
In this text the problem of legitimacy of democracy is considered through particular aspects of its crisis. On theoretical and philosophical level, the crisis of legitimacy of democracy is reflected as the primacy which some of the liberal thinkers give ...
Sládeček Michal
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Democratic Input Legitimacy of IRAs: Proposing an Assessment Framework

Utrecht Law Review, 2015
The democratic input legitimacy of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) is often questioned. Their independence creates distance from the main executive bodies, who therefore do not necessarily bear responsibility for them.
Miroslava Scholten
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