Democracy and legitimacy in the European Union revisited : input, output and throughput

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Schmidt, Vivien

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Abstract	Whether their analytic frameworks focus on institutional form and practices or on its interactive construction, scholars have analyzed the EU’s democratic legitimacy mainly in terms of the trade-offs between the output effectiveness of EU’s policies outcomes for the people and the input participation by and representation of the people. Missing is theorization of the “throughput” efficiency, accountability, transparency, and openness to consultation with the people of the EU’s internal governance processes. The paper argues that adding this analytic category facilitates assessment of these legitimizing mechanisms’ interdependencies and facilitates consideration of reforms that could turn this democratic trilemma into a “virtuous circle”.
Thesaurusschlagwörter	EU; democracy; legitimacy; EU policy; decision making process; transnationality; transparency; political participation; governance; identity formation
Klassifikation	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur; Europapolitik
Freie Schlagwörter	throughput legitimacy; tranparency; accountability
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2011
Erscheinungsort	Berlin
Seitenangabe	32 S.
Schriftenreihe	KFG Working Paper Series, 21
ISSN	1868-7601
Status	Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung